About This Campaign
Photo by Gary Jenkins
Show Me Love! is a campaign that seeks to provide information to all people affected by intimate partner violence in LGBTQ communities.
We celebrate fun, vibrant, healthy LGBTQ relationships and are dedicated to supporting people surviving unhealthy relationships by engaging them in creative activities and connecting them with the resources they need. LGBTQ survivors and their loved ones can ask for, and get, great support.
Goals
Our goals are to:
- raise the awareness of survivors in DC’s LGBTQ communities about their legal rights, and direct people to resources about maintaining healthy and violence-free relationships. We do this through creative outreach and a Public Service Announcement campaign.
- engage these communities in the campaign itself by leading an interactive art-based project and a series of community-based conversations and outreach events.
- ensure that this campaign is culturally relevant and accessible to LGBTQ Latin@ Communities in DC.
Leadership
Show Me Love! is spearheaded by Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. (WEAVE), and guided by a community advisory committee comprised of activists, service providers, artists, and community members.
Members of the committee include:
Alexandra Beninda
Alicia Gill
District Alliance for Safe Housing
Amrita Wassan
Brian Watson
Transgender Health Empowerment
Francisco Ruiz
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
Mike Giordano
Psychotherapist in Private Practice
Miranda Mims
Morgan Lynn
Quillin Drew
Virginia Anti-Violence Project
Sara Mindel
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League
Sean LeSane
Psychotherapist in Private Practice
Sha Grogan-Brown
Tonya Turner
Funding
The campaign is funded by a grant from the Office of Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
Additional Contributors
Special thanks to Pulp, Gary Jenkins (photographer), Michelle L. Kincaid (PR volunteer), Matrix Group (website hosting) and all of our other volunteers for their dedication to this campaign!
