Join The CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center, NYC Gaymers, Crime Victims Treatment Center, and the NYC Anti-Violence Project to play video games and more while learning anti-violence prevention best practices! This is a monthly interactive and community-led gaming space, where students will learn how to navigate, address, and prevent interpersonal violence within their relationships and communities. Open to all CCNY and CUNY!

Reminder to RSVP for the event date you are attending!

Location: The CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center (NAC 1/101B)

Time: 12PM - 2PM

Dates and Topics:

• Tuesday, Sept. 24: LGBTQ+ 101 & Types of Attraction
• Tuesday, Oct. 29: Navigating Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ+ Community
• Tuesday, Nov. 26: Creating Your Community of Care
• Tuesday, Dec. 10: Upstander/Bystander Intervention
• *TENTATIVE* Tuesday, Jan. 28: “LGBTQ+ Mental Health
• *TENTATIVE* Tuesday, Feb. 25: Sex Jeopardy & Healthy Relationships
• *TENTATIVE* Tuesday, Mar. 25: Healthy Masculinity & Intersectionality
• *TENTATIVE* Tuesday, Apr. 29: Title IX/Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors in LGBTQ+ Communities
• *TENTATIVE* Tuesday, May 13: Safer Partying During Pride

Games Include:

• Super Smash Bros.
• Mario Kart
• Jackbox TV Games
• Uno
• Dominoes
• Playing Cards
• A Variety of Tabletop Games

About the CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Student Center (est. Fall 2021) is a collaborative resource dedicated to celebrating, empowering, and supporting LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and faculty at CCNY. We are committed to leading with a social justice lens, offering and connecting LGBTQ+ communities at CCNY with accessible support services, relevant programming, engaging events, paid internship/job opportunities, and general guidance navigating college, home life, and futures outside of higher education for those who identify as LGBTQ+ or questioning. The LGBTQ+ Student Center is also dedicated to increasing awareness about LGBTQ+ issues, gender, and sexuality at City College. The LGBTQ+ Student Center is a safe space for all LGBTQIA+ students and allies to meet and build community. You all are welcome here!

About NYC Gaymers

NYC Gaymers (est. 2012 ) began as a member-led community of LGBTQIA+ gamers, moving to uplift the voices of marginalized gamers, and sustain a space that shares a diversity and passion that is reflective of both New York City and Gaming culture. NYC Gaymers Inc. empowers gamers across the intersections of orientation, identity, expression, race, and ability, in order to uplift and center our most marginalized community members through education, advocacy, and the creation of safer spaces.

About Crime Victims Treatment Center

CVTC (est. 1977) is a not-for-profit organization committed to helping people heal from violent crime. We respect that healing comes in many forms and recognize the importance of a holistic approach. CVTC provides a wide range of therapeutic services free of charge to anyone impacted by violence. We are dedicated to advocacy on behalf of survivors, collaboration with partners across a multitude of disciplines, and training for those who work with survivors. We are committed to changing cultural norms around violence and promoting social justice through progressive legislation and community mobilization.

About The Anti-Violence Project

AVP (est. 1980) empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. AVP envisions a world in which all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected people are safe, respected, and live free from violence.

This event is made possible due to generous funding from the NYC Council's LGBTQIA Caucus, the Office of the Mayor, and supported by the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium through the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.

This event will be archived at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.

Co-sponsors: NYC Gaymers, NYC Anti-Violence Project, NYC Crime Victims Treatment Center, CCNY Gaming Pathways, The LGBTQ+ Student Center at CCNY, The LGBTQ+ Open Alliance Club, the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council, CCNY Office of Diversity and Compliance, The CUNY Office of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives,The CCNY Department of Student Life and Leadership Development, CCNY Gender Resources, and the City College Division of Student Affairs.

The City College of New York and the CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center are a proud members of the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.

QUESTIONS? email us at lgbtq@ccny.cuny.edu

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