Garden State Equality is New Jersey’s largest advocacy organization. Since Garden State Equality's founding in 2004, New Jersey has enacted 210 laws at the state, county and municipal levels to advance the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. That's more LGBT civil rights laws enacted in less time than in any other U.S. state – ever. A 2009 year-end study by www.eQualityGiving.com ranks New Jersey as #1 in the United States for LGBT civil rights, tied with California, Iowa and Vermont. In 2008, Garden State Equality became the first statewide civil rights organization in America to be showcased in an Academy Award®-winning film. "Garden State Equality has run the most effective grassroots campaign New Jersey has seen in years," the Star-Ledger has written. Next we will win a marriage equality statute to replace our state's failed civil union law. So welcome to Garden State Equality, a movement making history. We're glad you're here.
The New York Area Bisexual Network lists organizations and activities throughout the region, including in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
The Task Force has also issued a superb issue paper on bisexuality. As the paper states: “Popular conceptualizations of sexual orientation often present a strictly either/or perspective on intimate relationships and human sexuality: a person is either heterosexual or homosexual; a person is emotionally and sexually attracted to either women or men. However, research shows that human sexuality is much more fluid than the simple gay-straight binarism.”
As bisexual members of Garden State Equality point out, our fight for marriage equality in New Jersey is not about “gay marriage,” because that does not include bisexual people who want to marry a person of the same gender.
Furthermore, Garden State Equality, like others in the marriage equality movement, rejects the term “gay marriage” because we’re fighting for marriage, not something different or special called gay marriage. We want equality: No more, no less.
And that’s what members of the bisexual community want – free of prejudice from straight Americans and from other communities within the greater LGBT community.
