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- EIN 20-2588166
- contact@gardenstateequality.org
- (973) 473-5428
- 40 South Fullerton Ave Montclair NJ 07042 USA
- http://www.gardenstateequality.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Lesbian & Gay Rights, LGBTQ
Mission: Founded in 2004, Garden State Equality is New Jersey’s leading civil rights organization ensuring quality of life for the LGBT community through education, advocacy, service and support.
Results: Garden State Equality is New Jersey’s statewide advocacy and education organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. GSE, in collaboration with community partners, led efforts to ensure nondiscrimination for transgender and gender nonconforming people in NJ, pass the most comprehensive anti-bullying law in the country, end sexual orientation and gender identity/expression change efforts in NJ (sometimes called conversion therapy), and bring marriage equality to the Garden State. In this post-marriage environment, our main focuses are youth, transgender people, and seniors, and our work on those issues is informed by racial, economic, and disability justice concerns. GSE is working on campaigns to address safe environments for youth, improvement of health services that meet LGBT community needs, and respectful treatment of seniors. Beyond that, GSE supports NJ’s activist community by bringing an LGBT lens to the shared struggle for justice.
Target demographics: The LGBT Community of NJ
Geographic areas served: New Jersey
Programs: To supply educational information to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities and educate the public through public forums regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered issues.
garden state equality is a leading voice in the anti bullying and safe schools movement with paricular focus on lgbt youth.