Member Organizations
Equality Federation has become the leading movement builder, national network, and strategic partner to our 50+ state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations.
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Indiana - IYG
IYG creates safer spaces to foster community and provides programming that empowers LGBTQ+ young people and magnifies their voices.
Pennsylvania - Fairness Pennsylvania
Fairness Pennsylvania is a statewide civil rights advocacy organization dedicated to fair treatment and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Pennsylvanians..
Montana: Catalyst Montana
Catalyst Montana uplifts low-income and marginalized Montanans through community organizing, policy advocacy, research, and leadership development. Catalyst Montana envisions policy change that makes concrete improvements in peoples’ lives and organizing that realizes the power of communities to create justice, safety, and dignity for all.
Texas: Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)
Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) is the largest statewide, BIPOC trans-led, trans-focused policy, education, and advocacy organization in the state of Texas.
Louisiana: ReJAC
The Reproductive Justice Action Collective (ReJAC) is a New Orleans network that aims to share information, resources, ideas, and human power to create and implement projects in our community that operate within the reproductive justice framework.
ReJAC envisions a world in which all Southerners are able to access reproductive health care without judgement and with dignity; have free access to accurate health information, resources, and organizing opportunities in their communities; and have a space to organize about issues that are important to them.
Washington: Lavender Rights Project
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black intersex & gender-diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. They provide life-saving policy and social change advocacy, comprehensive care, and legal services to Black, indigenous, and LGBTQ+ individuals, with a particular emphasis on supporting Black trans communities.
Missouri: BlaqOut
BlaqOut is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and movement organization working to improve healthcare access and create a safe space for Kansas City's Black LGBTQ+ community.
New Mexico: Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico
Supports transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming communities through direct services, education, and advocacy.
Minnesota: Gender Justice
Gender Justice envisions a world where everyone can thrive regardless of their gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation. Step by step, we’re creating that world by dismantling legal, structural, and cultural barriers that contribute to gender inequity. We work to ensure that people of all genders have a meaningful right to bodily autonomy, safety, health, and opportunity.
Connecticut: Equality Connecticut
Equality Connecticut aspires to advance the rights, health, history, and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community in Connecticut. Equality Connecticut comes to this work as a queer-led grassroots organization rooted in social justice values. They carry out this work by advocating for progressive change, celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community in the state, and supporting the state’s LGBTQIA+ organizational community.
Wisconsin: GSAFE
GSAFE creates just schools for LGBTQ+ youth in Wisconsin.
Nebraska: OutNebraska
OutNebraska works to empower, celebrate and grow LGBTQ+ communities in Nebraska. OutNebraska advocates for reform, connecting with local and state representatives, encouraging civic engagement, and making investments for the betterment of our communities.
South Carolina: Alliance for Full Acceptance
AFFA works to achieve, nurture, and defend equality and full acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people.
New York: New York City LGBT Center
Empowering LGBT people, building strong community. New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center empowers people to lead healthy, successful lives. The Center celebrates our diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity.
North Dakota: North Dakota Human Rights Coalition
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition is a statewide, membership-based organization established to increase the visibility of human rights needs and violations, and to change laws and attitudes that stand as barriers to residents within North Dakota who do not currently enjoy their full rights.
Ohio: TransOhio
TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy, which promotes and improves the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.
Nevada: Silver State Equality
As Nevada’s statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, Silver State Equality brings the voices of LGBTQ+ people and allies to institutions of power in Nevada and across the United States, striving to create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all LGBTQ+ people.
Missouri: PROMO
Our Vision | Missouri is a state in which LGBTQ+ people – every race, ethnicity, demographic, zip code, and experience – are valued and thriving.
Our Mission | PROMO confronts systemic inequities to liberate the full spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination and oppression.
Minnesota: Outfront Minnesota
OutFront Minnesota’s mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination.
Massachusetts: MassEquality
MassEquality is the leading statewide grassroots advocacy organization working to ensure that everyone across Massachusetts can thrive from cradle to grave without discrimination and oppression based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. MassEquality partners across identities, issues, and communities to build a broad, inclusive, and politically powerful movement that changes hearts and minds and achieves policy and electoral victories.
New Jersey: Garden State Equality
Garden State Equality lifts up the diverse voices of LGBTQ+ communities through education and advocacy to advance the movement for equality in New Jersey and nationally. Garden State Equality works tirelessly to ensure the communities we serve experience lived equality. Garden State Equality is the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy organization in New Jersey, with over 150,000 members.
Oklahoma: Freedom Oklahoma
Freedom Oklahoma works to secure lived equality and legal protection for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer people through advocacy, public education, coalition building, and empowerment in the civic process.
Ohio: Equality Ohio
Equality Ohio identifies and transforms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality.
North Carolina: Equality North Carolina
Equality North Carolina builds LGBTQ+ power through advocacy, education, and uplifting the stories of queer and trans North Carolinians in pursuit of racial and social justice.
New Mexico: Equality New Mexico
Equality New Mexico works to be a trusted partner and to uplift the voices and leadership of our community in creating a reality of equity, full access, and sustainable wellness for LGBTQ New Mexicans.
Michigan: Equality Michigan
Equality Michigan is the statewide anti-violence and advocacy organization proudly serving Michigan's LGBTQ and HIV affected communities for over 20 years.
Arkansas: Arkansas Black Gay Men's Forum
Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum (ARBGM FORUM) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization providing services that address health, social and economic disparities among Black Americans with the mission to empower, uplift, and unite Black gay men through interactive dialogue and specific programs. ARBGMF serves as a think tank on pressing social, economic, and political issues.
Wyoming: Wyoming Equality
Wyoming Equality strives to achieve equity for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and queer Wyomingites by building broad and inclusive communities, shifting the hearts and minds of our neighbors, and achieving policy victories.
Wisconsin: Fair Wisconsin
Fair Wisconsin envisions a fair, safe, and inclusive society in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are treated with dignity and respect.
West Virginia: Fairness West Virginia
Fairness West Virginia (Fairness) is the statewide civil rights advocacy organization dedicated to fair treatment and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender West Virginians.
Virginia: Equality Virginia
Founded in 1989 as Virginians for Justice, Equality Virginia is a statewide, non-partisan education, outreach, and advocacy organization seeking equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Virginians (LGBT).
Texas: Equality Texas
Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Tennessee: Tennessee Equality Project
To promote and sustain the equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons in the State of Tennessee through the establishment of fair and equitable laws protecting these rights and the elimination of laws that would seek to counter this effort. Equality is meant to include the protection of human and civil rights and the elimination of prejudice and discrimination.
South Dakota: The Transformation Project
Transgender South Dakotans deserve better. Far too many transgender youth and young adults in our state and region have faced misunderstanding, hostility, and outright discrimination simply because of who they are. This has created a climate where kids live in fear of being their true selves, where parents desperate for community are increasingly isolated, and where vulnerable people feel powerless. We are determined to change that and turn our home into a place where communities embrace their transgender neighbors, where every family has a support network, and where transgender kids can live safely and authentically. Our vision is one where every young person knows they are loved, valued, and empowered to make their dreams a reality.
South Dakota: Equality South Dakota
Equality South Dakota is a statewide advocacy organization developed by people across South Dakota who are dedicated to achieving equality for all people with respect to their sexual orientation and gender identity. Our membership includes thousands of supporters from not only this state but across the nation.
Maryland: FreeState Justice
FreeState Justice is a legal advocacy organization that seeks to improve the lives of low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (“LGBTQ”) Marylanders.
Maine: EqualityMaine
EqualityMaine is the oldest and largest statewide organization dedicated to creating a fair and just society for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Mainers.
www.equalitymaine.org
Kentucky: Fairness Campaign
The Fairness Campaign is Kentucky’s LGBTQ advocacy organization founded in 1991 by 10 Louisvillians. Its primary goal is comprehensive civil rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and to dismantle systemic racism.
Louisiana: Forum for Equality
Forum for Equality is Louisiana’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights organization dedicated to the establishment of a society free from discrimination and to the support of good government. We believe that the fastest and most efficient way to achieve our goals is through community organization, education, and constructive participation in the political process. Since 1989, Forum has been active in Louisiana by helping to pass civil rights advancements for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Louisiana: Louisiana Trans Advocates
Advancing the core human rights of self-determination and expression for all trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people in Louisiana.
Iowa: One Iowa
One Iowa is a statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) organization preserving and advancing equality for LGBTQ individuals through grassroots efforts, advocacy, and education.
Georgia: Georgia Equality
Georgia Equality’s mission is to advance fairness, safety and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and our allies throughout the state.
Illinois: Equality Illinois
Equality Illinois builds a better Illinois by advancing equal treatment and full acceptance of the LGBTQ community.
www.equalityillinois.us
Florida: Equality Florida
The largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
Delaware: Equality Delaware
Working to ensure and promote dignity, safety and equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Delawareans.
www.equalitydelaware.org
Oregon: Basic Rights Oregon
Basic Rights Oregon will ensure that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion, and achieving policy victories.
http://www.basicrights.org/
Arizona: Equality Arizona
Equality Arizona is the leading statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization for the State of Arizona. They organize the LGBTQ community of Arizona to fight for the full social, economic, and political inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in Arizona.
www.equalityarizona.org
California: Equality California
Equality California brings the voices of LGBTQ people and allies to institutions of power in California and across the United States, striving to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people. We advance civil rights and social justice by inspiring, advocating, and mobilizing through an inclusive movement that works tirelessly on behalf of those we serve.
www.eqca.org
Colorado: One Colorado
Secure protections and opportunities for LGBTQ Coloradans and their families.

