professional & advocacy resources

Garden State Equality is New Jersey’s statewide advocacy and education organization for the lesbian, gay,       bisexual, and transgender community. Our main focuses are youth, transgender people, and seniors, and our work on those issues is informed by racial, economic, and disability justice concerns. 

National alliance of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy organizations. 

Through community organizing, education, policy and research, the Community Organizing and Public Advocacy (COPA) Department works towards shifting policy, building power of community members and responding to incidents of anti-LGBTQ violence in order to create systemic change in people’s lives. 

Resources for the LGBT population include national survey reports, agency and federal initiatives, and related behavioral health resources.  

County-wide LGBTQ+ group delivering, programming, resources, and activism for the Bergen County area. Excellent resource for LGBTQ+ concerns. Youth, Senior, Trans and Substance Abuse programming.