Everyone deserves legal protections, regardless of who they love or the gender they’re assigned at birth. The ACLU-NJ stands up for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identifying, and questioning New Jerseyans.
Relationship Equality
- It's Prom Season ... Know Your Rights! (2010)
- Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples Becomes Law in N.J. (2007)
- ACLU-NJ Makes Case for Marriage Equality Over Civil Unions (2006)
- Act Now to Support Domestic Partnership (2004)
Press Releases
- September 2, 2021 ACLU-NJ and Garden State Equality to County Jails: Follow the Law and House Transgender People According to Gender Identity
- June 29, 2021 Settlement of NJ Civil Rights Suit Promises Necessary Reform Affirming Transgender, Intersex, and Non-Binary People in Prison
- January 14, 2020 Historic Expansion of Rights Lays Foundation for Bolder Social Justice Policies
- August 29, 2019 Woman Who Is Transgender Will Be Transferred to Women’s Prison
- August 26, 2019 School District Will Act to Correct Discriminatory Training Based on Gender Stereotypes
- July 11, 2019 Gov. Murphy Signs Isolated Confinement Restriction Act into Law
- June 13, 2019 Retired Legal Director Ed Barocas' Remarks on Receiving the Roger N. Baldwin Award
- October 16, 2018 Ed Barocas, an NJ Legal Giant, Retires as ACLU-NJ Legal Director
- October 19, 2017 ACLU-NJ Scorecard Shows Mixed Civil Liberties Records
- October 28, 2015 ACLU-NJ Scores Assembly Members on Key Civil Liberties Votes
Legal Cases
- Sonia Doe v. NJ Department of Corrections
Challenge under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and New Jersey Constitution to the Department of Corrections' mistreatment of a woman because she is transgender, including housing her for over a year and a half in men’s prisons.
- Garden State Equality v. Paula Dow
New Jersey’s civil unions, a separate and unequal system for same-sex couples, failed to provide equal protection of the law
- Lewis v. Harris
- Paster v. O.G.C.M.A.
Same-sex couple prohibited from using boardwalk pavilion for their civil union ceremony.
- Rogers & Christopher v. NOBLE
- L.W. v. Toms River Regional Schools Board of Education
- ACLU-NJ Defends Student's Right to Free Speech
- 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.
- In the Matter of Child to Be Born to Kimberly Robinson
- In the Matter of N.C.
Legislative Efforts
- Transgender Birth Certificate Discrimination
Creates standards for amending the sex of a person on a birth certificate and eliminates the outdated and burdensome surgery requirement.
- Transgender Birth Certificate Discrimination
Creates standards for amending the sex of a person on a birth certificate and eliminates the outdated and burdensome surgery requirement.
- Transgender Birth Certificate Discrimination
Creates standards for amending the sex of a person on a birth certificate and eliminates the sex reassignment surgery requirement.
Op-Eds
- Gay Marriage in N.J. (2009)
- Corzine on My Mind (2009)
- Sometimes a Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss (2007)
- Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (2004)