Equality Ohio advocates and educates to achieve fair treatment and equal opportunity for all Ohioans regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. To learn more about Equality Ohio’s work to end discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, click here.
One Iowa's mission is to support full equality for LGBT individuals living in the state through grassroots efforts and education. A leader in the coalition of organizations working to maintain marriage equality in the Iowa, One Iowa’s public education initiative, Why Marriage Matters, shifts the conversation from politics back to people. To learn more, go to www.whymarriagemattersiowa.org
The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people. To learn more about legislative and public policy issues critical to advancing equality for transgender people, visit transequality.org.
Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to safeguard and advance the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through litigation, education and policy work. Learn more about the cases and public policies impacting the lives of people living with HIV.
Sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), The Repeal HIV Discrimination Act is intended to eliminate discrimination in the law for those who have tested positive for HIV. To learn more, visit The Library of Congress to read the bill in its entirety.
The mission of the Positive Women’s Network is to prepare and involve HIV-positive women, including transgender women, in all levels of policy and decision-making to improve the quality of women’s lives. If you are an HIV+ woman, join the Positive Women's Network in advocating for your rights.
Through innovative legal services and advocacy programs, The HIV Law Project fights for the rights of the most underserved people living with HIV/AIDS. Find out more about legal resources for the HIV+ communities.
The Positive Justice Project is the Center for HIV Law and Policy’s response to stigma driven laws criminalizing people with HIV and AIDS. Learn more about this community-driven, multidisciplinary collaboration to end government reliance on an individual's positive HIV test result as proof of intent to harm.
America’s leading national Black LGBT civil rights organization focused on federal public policy, the National Black Justice Coalition leads Black families in bridging the gaps between straight and LGBT people and communities. To find out how you can help advance the cause of LGBT equality and strengthen Black families, sign up for NBJC newsletters and action alerts.
The National LGBT Bar Association is an association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender legal organizations. The LGBT Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBT community in all its diversity. Legal professionals can access newsletters, resources and events by signing up here.
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