LGBTQ+ Rights

The ACLU-NJ works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people can live with dignity and free from discrimination, harassment, or violence.

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The ACLU-NJ works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people can live with dignity and free from discrimination, harassment, or violence.

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News & Commentary
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Pride Is Stronger than Ever, Even Amid National Setbacks

This June, we showed up all month proudly honoring queer resistance and joy.
News & Commentary
Pride Is Still Protest

Pride is Still, and Has Always Been, Protest

It’s as important now as ever before that we continue to fight back, speak up, and boldly declare that we all have the freedom to be.
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New Jersey Superior Court Rules to Protect Transgender Students, Supportive Parents, and Safe Schools in Forced Outing Cases

All students in our state deserve to feel safe, supported, and respected.
News & Commentary
A pesron holding up a sign reading "A World Without Trans People Has Never Existed And Never Will" at a demonstration.

Trump's Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination, Explained

A new executive order lays out a plan to erase transgender people’s existence under the law
Court Case
Apr 23, 2024

Platkin v Manalapan-Englishtown Reg’l Bd. of Educ., Platkin v Middletown Township Bd. of Educ., & Platkin v Marlboro Township Bd. of Educ.

Amicus briefs arguing that school policies requiring staff to out transgender students to their parents or guardians are unconstitutional, violate the Law Against Discrimination, and will cause irreparable harm to students and schools.
Court Case
Aug 22, 2011

Lewis v. Harris

Court Case
Jun 15, 2011

Lewis, et al. v. Harris, et al.

Supporting suit challenging New Jersey civil unions as creating a system that perpetuates disparity in the rights of LGBT couples versus married heterosexual couples.
Court Case
Jun 21, 2021

Sonia Doe v. NJ Department of Corrections