Garden State Equality is one of 160+ LGBTQ+ organizations across the country that signed onto the following statement. More groups are adding their names, so click here for the most up-to-date list.
Our LGBTQIA2S+ community has risen again and again to meet moments that have challenged our rights, our humanity, and our freedom. Today is no different.
Ours is a long history of never backing down from a fight for our rights. United in our strength, during the most difficult of times, we have pushed forward and achieved significant progress across the decades. From the early days of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis, to the Stonewall Uprising and HIV/AIDS activism, to achieving marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace, to the fight for transgender rights, and beyond, we march on.
For every member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and for those who support us: We’ve got this. We’ve got us. No matter who you are, where you live, or the outcome of yesterday’s election, today we are an LGBTQIA2S+ community united. Together, across races, places, genders, and abilities, we have shown up for each other by organizing, mobilizing, and casting our ballots for the freedom to be ourselves. Our work continues.
Election outcomes at national, state, and local levels will impact our health, our safety, and our rights as LGBTQIA2S+ people and families. Despite anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts to divide our communities, and particularly severe attacks against transgender people and LGBTQIA2S+ youth, we have succeeded in moving a few steps closer toward equity and justice for our community. In particular, we celebrate the election of the first openly transgender person to U.S. Congress, Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), as well as out lawmakers U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson (Texas), and State Rep. Wick Thomas (Mo.), and cementing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, Colorado, and Hawaii.
Across the country, LGBTQIA2S+ organizations and advocates engaged and educated voters, made calls, sent texts, and knocked on doors to ensure every voter had the information necessary to cast a ballot. Every single conversation reflected our commitment to vote for our families, our freedoms, and our futures.
We know that so much more work lies ahead of us. Yet as an LGBTQIA2S+ movement, we will continue to work towards what we always have: a country where all LGBTQIA2S+ people are safe, seen, and accepted for who we truly are, without exception. We are here together, and we will move forward. We’ve got this. We’ve got us.
Shared by:
Advocates for Trans Equality
Advocates for Youth
AIDS United
Alaskans Together For Equality
Alliance For Full Acceptance SC
ALSO Youth
Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum
Basic Rights Oregon
Blue Ridge Pride
Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BCPC)
Burbank Community YMCA Social Impact Center
CAMP Rehoboth
Center for HIV Law and Policy
CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers
Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness
COLAGE
Compass LGBTQ Community Center
Crawfordsville Pride – Crawfordsville, IN
Diversity Richmond
Diversity Collective Ventura County
EDGE New Jersey
Equality Arizona
Equality California
Equality Delaware
Equality Federation
Equality Florida
Equality Illinois
Equality Michigan
Equality New Mexico
Equality Ohio
Equality Texas
Equality Virginia
Equality South Dakota
Fair Wisconsin
Fairness Campaign
Fairness West Virginia
Family Equality
Forum for Equality Louisiana
Friends of Dorothy of Indiana
The Frederick Center
Garden State Equality
Gender Justice
Georgia Equality
GLAAD
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)
Grand Rapids Pride Center
Greenwood Indiana Pride
Have A Gay Day Inc.
Henderson Equality Center
Human Rights Campaign
IYG
Lambda Legal
LGBT Center Orlando, Inc.
LGBT Center of Raleigh
The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert
LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc.
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
LGBTQ+ Victory Institute
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Louisville Youth Group
Loving Beyond Understanding
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
MassEquality
Movement Advancement Project
Naper Pride Inc
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund
NBJC
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition
NoVA Prism Center
Northwest Arkansas Equality
Ogden Pride
Omaha ForUs LGBTQ+ Center
One-n-ten
One Colorado
One Iowa
Our Spot KC
OutFront Minnesota
OutNebraska
Patchwork Transgender Peer Support
PFLAG National
PFLAG Akron
PFLAG Athens, TN
PFLAG Blairsville
PFLAG Bowie
PFLAG Burbank
PFLAG Cape Cod
PFLAG Cape Girardeau
PFLAG Carson Region
PFLAG Charlotte
PFLAG Clayton-Concord
PFLAG Corydon – Leavenworth
PFLAG Danville – San Ramon Valley
PFLAG Danville / Central Susquehanna Valley
PFLAG Denver
PFLAG Fort Collins
PFLAG Franklin
PFLAG Franklin-Hampshire
PFLAG Fort Worth
PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities
PFLAG Georgetown
PFLAG Greater Boston
PFLAG Greater Orlando
PFLAG Greater Placer County
PFLAG Greensburg
PFLAG Hampton Roads
PFLAG Hartford
PFLAG Jersey Shore
PFLAG Lafayette/Tippecanoe County
PFLAG Lamorinda
PFLAG Lower Columbia
PFLAG Nazareth/Lehigh Valley
PFLAG of Door County
PFLAG Safety Harbor
PFLAG Salisbury Rowan
PFLAG San Diego County
PFLAG Seattle
PFLAG Socorro
PFLAG Storm Lake
PFLAG Tulsa
PFLAG Waukesha
Positive Women’s Network – USA
The Pride Center at Equality Park
Pride Frisco
Pride Lafayette
Pride Richland County (Illinois)
The Prideful Path Project
Prism United
Project LPAC
Q Center PDX
Queer Keys
Queer Vox
Queering The Binary Foundation
Rochester Rainbow Union
Rockland County Pride Center
SAGE
San Francisco Community Health Center
Seacoast Outright
Shelly’s Voice Advocacy
Shoals Diversity Center
Silver State Equality
Stonewall Columbus, Inc
Tennessee Equality Project
Time Out Youth
The Trevor Project
Transformation Project
Transgender Law Center
Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico
TransLafayette
TransOhio
Us Giving Richmond Connections
Volusia Pride
Waves Ahead Corp Puerto Rico
Youth Pride Association