Garden State Equality
New Jersey's largest #LGBTQ advocacy and education organization. 150,000+ members strong. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Events, updates, and more >> gse.lgbt/bio
- We're excited to announce our keynote panel for Equality at Work, our annual inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility symposium on 4/11! Our headliners are 6 Black & Brown queer & allied women working to advance inclusion across industries. Register for Equality at Work ➡ gse.lgbt/work25
- Join us on Tuesday, April 8 for Joining Together in Right Relationship: A Healing Space for Empowered Women. We will imagine how all women can build diverse communities to powerfully face the challenges of these times and create flourishing futures for all. Learn more and RSVP at gse.lgbt/joining ✨
- Happy National LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week! This week, we lobbied our lawmakers on a number of health equity bills, including expanding access to PrEP and PEP and passing a health equity bill package. Do your part to advance health equity now—contact your legislators at jerseytrans.care!
- Are YOU ready for #TDOV? We’re excited to share programming for our Trans Day of Visibility event this Friday 3/28 at Montclair State University. 📋 Register at gse.lgbt/tdov25 ✂ Sign up for haircuts at gse.lgbt/haircut25
- This year, we’re focusing on building resiliency and messages of hope, with a workshop on showing up for ourselves and others in these challenging times. But we’ll also be celebrating trans joy with our Affirmation Station, free haircuts, giveaways, and music!
- Are you looking to take action in the face of the Trump administration's assaults on marginalized people and democracy itself? Join us and Jersey Pride, Inc. at UNITED 2025 to build community, gain advocacy skills, and figure out how YOU can plug into resistance and activism right here in NJ!
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- We want to thank Sundeep Iyer for his commitment to preserving legal equality for all New Jerseyans as the Director of the NJ Division on Civil Rights, and we want to congratulate incoming DCR Director Yolanda Melville on her appointment! @newjerseyoag.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- Looking for information about legally changing your name and gender marker in #NewJersey? Join us at one of our upcoming name change info sessions! Saturday, 3/8 @ 11am : gse.lgbt/nameinfo1 Saturday, 4/5 @ 11am: gse.lgbt/nameinfo2 #trans #transgender #nonbinary #NJ
- 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 PRIDE SEASON IS LESS THAN TWO AND A HALF MONTHS AWAY! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Last year, we were able to attend 60+ #Pride celebrations in every part of #NewJersey — but only thanks to the help of everyone who told us about events! Help us attend even more this year >> gse.lgbt/prideevents25 #NJ #LGBTQ
- We’re fighting to protect gender-affirming care in #NewJersey for people like Michelle. You can help. Learn more and get involved at jerseytrans.care #NJ #trans #LGBTQ #transgender #nonbinary
- We want to thank @booker.senate.gov and @kim.senate.gov for supporting #trans youth AGAIN earlier this week by voting "NO" on Senate Bill 9. This bill would've banned transgender girls and women from being able to play on the correct sports teams. #NJ #NewJersey
- At a time when #transgender, #nonbinary, and gender diverse people — students and athletes in particular — are being attacked by the highest office in the land, your support is critical. @corybooker.com @andykimnj.bsky.social
- Coming up next month on 3/17 is our Lobby Day! Will you join us to advocate for gender-affirming care, bodily autonomy, HIV medication, and more? This is YOUR opportunity to show our lawmakers what we need them to do to protect queer & trans people in #NewJersey! gse.lgbt/lobbyday
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- 🤦 You're correct, thanks for the catch! As you can see by our previous post, we have an event on 3/22 as well.
- 🏳️⚧️🏒🔊 ARE YOU READY FOR FULL VOLUME #PRIDE? 🔊🏒🏳️🌈 We're excited to partner with @pwhlsirens.bsky.social for their \Pride Game coming up on March 22! Get your tickets now! >> gse.lgbt/sirens #NJ #NewJersey #hockey
- Equality is fundamental to economic progress, which is why we're grateful @govmurphy.bsky.social started his final budget address today by committing to defend the rights and freedoms of every New Jerseyan alongside fiscal security and opportunity. #NJ #NewJersey @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- Gender-affirming care is only protected by executive order in #NewJersey, meaning the next governor could revoke our status as a trans healthcare sanctuary state upon taking office. YOU can help us fix that. Learn more and get involved by clicking the link: jerseytrans.care #NJ #LGBTQ #transgender
- Every day, people ask us what they can do to protect gender-affirming care in #NewJersey. Here's your chance. Help us and learn more about our campaign at jerseytrans.care.
- “This is not just an erasure of words — it is an erasure of history. Stripping trans and queer identities from the narrative of Stonewall is a deliberate and dangerous attempt to rewrite history." Read the whole article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Marsha P. Johnson’s family and Garden State Equality are speaking out against the Trump administration’s erasure of transgender people from #LGBTQ+ history.
- Last night, news broke that the #NationalParkService has scrubbed any references to #transgender and #queer people and history from the website of the #Stonewall National Monument. The Marsha P. Johnson Family Foundation and Garden State Equality condemn this discriminatory and dangerous action.
- We've just had an exciting opportunity open up for our membership happening in ONE HOUR! Register >> gse.lgbt/booker @corybooker.com is holding a listening session for LGBTQ+ New Jerseyans at 4pm today. If you've ever wanted to ask Sen. Booker a question, here's your chance!
- “The full implications of these executive orders [are] not understood yet, and that in real time, as we gain a better understanding of what the impact will look like, we’re going to try to keep … [everyone] as informed as possible." Read the full article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Join us for a series of virtual roundtables with candidates for New Jersey Governor! Starting Wednesday, these Zoom events will feature in-depth discussions of how candidates plan to address issues important to LGBTQ+ communities in New Jersey. View dates and RSVP: gse.lgbt/gov25
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- We're from Jersey, baby — and they're not!
- GOOD NEWS: Today @govmurphy signed an executive order establishing an Advisory Council on HIV, STIs, and Viral Hepatitis. 1/ #NewJersey #NJ #HIV @govmurphy.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- The council will bring together government officials and members of the public to address these communicable diseases with specific attention to their disproportionate impact on Black, Latine, and LGBTQ+ New Jerseyans. 2/ #NewJersey #NJ #HIV @govmurphy.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- At a time when the federal government’s actions threaten decades of progress toward ending the HIV epidemic, we commend Gov. Murphy for taking this step to reinforce NJ's commitment to inclusive and equitable public health. 3/ #NewJersey #HIV @govmurphy.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- BREAKING: The #NJ Superior Court has upheld the injunction preventing 3 Monmouth County school boards from implementing policies that would forcibly out #transgender students. The court agreed these policies violate the #NewJersey Law Against Discrimination. 1/
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View full threadThe NJ Superior Court also rejected arguments that the injunction violates parents’ rights or student record laws. In the decision, the court correctly acknowledged that the current policies do not prevent parents from accessing student records. 4/
- This victory for equality wouldn’t have been possible without the collaboration of @aclu-nj.org and @lowensteinllp.bsky.social, as well as the dedicated advocacy of AG Matt Platkin and NJ DCR Director Sundeep Iyer. #NJ #NewJersey #civilrights #students
- The court affirmed these policies would cause irreparable harm to trans students by forcing them to come out before they were ready, putting their safety and well-being at risk. 2/
- As the court recognized, students should never face a different set of rules just because they are transgender or gender diverse. 3/
- Yesterday, #NewJersey AG Matthew Platkin, alongside 15 other attorneys general from around the country, reaffirmed his commitment to protecting access to gender affirming care. We thank AG Platkin and the entire coalition for making it clear they will protect access to this life-saving healthcare.
- BREAKING: Trump just signed another ridiculous anti- #trans executive order. This one claims to be about protecting women in sports. Let’s be clear: it is a violation of #NewJersey law to prevent trans girls and women from playing sports as the girls and women they are.
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View full threadThe executive order also fails to address the real challenges women and girls face in sports, like worse facilities, lack of opportunity, and a huge pay gap for professional athletes.
- It’s crystal clear that these executive orders aren’t really about sports, or healthcare, or the military—and they’re certainly not about protecting women. The Trump administration is trying to push #trans people out of public life.
- #NewJersey schools and sports governing bodies must not comply with this executive order.
- The #NewJersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association has had a policy letting #trans kids play sports in school since 2009. There hasn’t been a single problem in 16 years.
- The #NJ Division of #CivilRights just made it unequivocally clear: anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination is an affront to the Garden State's values and our Law Against Discrimination is in full force — no matter what the federal government has to say. 1/ #NewJersey #LGBTQ #trans #transgender #queer
- To put it another way, they said in no uncertain terms: NO HATE IN THE GARDEN STATE. 2/ #NewJersey #NJ #LGBTQ #trans #transgender #queer #civilrights @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social
- We're just going to let this last one speak for itself: "We will continue our work to protect LGBTQIA+ New Jerseyans from discrimination, and we will not hesitate to hold violators of the law accountable." 3/ #NewJersey #NJ #LGBTQ #trans #transgender #queer #civilrights
- Being #transgender DOES NOT conflict with the commitment to honor and sacrifice necessary to serve in the military. In response to Trump's ban on trans people serving in the #military, we uplifted the story of Army veteran, trans woman, and New Jerseyan Sgt. Maj. Jennifer Marie Long. 1/
- Unlike the first go around, this ban insinuates simply being trans conflicts with the commitment and honor necessary to serve in the military. This sets a dangerous new precedent in attacks on transgender people, that their very existence runs counter to our shared values as Americans. 2/
- IMMIGRANT JUSTICE IS LGBTQ+ JUSTICE. Earlier today, we stood in solidarity with a coalition of Latine and immigrant justice organizations to condemn the heinous ICE raids ordered by the Trump administration that have taken place over the past week. #immigrants #NewJersey #NJ #immigrantjustice
- 🏳️⚧️📢 I GUESS THEY DIDN'T HEAR US YESTERDAY. WHEN TRANS YOUTH ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO? 📢🏳️⚧️ We'll have more info how you can help us fight all of the executive orders soon. Stay tuned for updates. #nj #newjersey #schools #youth #SafeSchoolsSaveLives #students #lgbt #trans
- “There has not been a moment of peace for individuals that have been impacted by these executive orders." @fuscarino.bsky.social Read the article for more on sweeping implications of the attempted freeze on the communities for which we advocate.
- The Trump administration is trying to freeze grant and loan funding, a move that could have massive ripple effects in NJ. Though a court temporarily halted the freeze, the move threatens some of the state's most vulnerable citizens. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/01/trum...
