URGENT: Email your state legislators to express your support for marriage equality
Here you can find out who your legislators are, what their emails are, and get pointers for what to include in your emails.
Call your state legislators to express your support
for marriage equality
Here you can find out who your legislators are, what their office phone numbers are, and get pointers for what to say when you call their offices.
Sign our online petition for marriage equality
Add your name to our growing list of supporters by signing our online petition in support marriage equality.
Host a Strategy Summit at your home
Email StrategySummit@GardenStateEquality.org to host a strategy summit at your home. In your email, please include your name, hometown and cell phone number. Garden State Equality’s Strategy Summits are small gatherings of a dozen or so of our members who live in a particular neighborhood or area that take place at a local home. Leaders of our organization also come, and together, the group strategizes and brainstorms on marriage equality in ways very specific to where you live. We do all the preparation and even bring the refreshments. So if you’d like to host a Strategy Summit, it won’t cost you anything, but it will make a huge difference.
Circulate a marriage equality petition in person to your family, friends and neighbors
Click here for a hard-copy petition in support of marriage equality that you can print out and take with you when you meet others. Make as many copies as you need. You can even take copies and go door to door in your neighborhood, a highly effective way to guarantee your petition is signed by constituents of your legislators. When you’re finished circulating the petition, you can get it to us in several ways. You can mail your copies to Garden State Equality, 40 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey 07042. You can call us at (973) GSE-LGBT or (973) 473-5428, and we will make arrangements to collect your completed petition pages. Or you can also email a pdf of the petition pages to Petition@GardenStateEquality.org and include your name, hometown and cell phone number in your email.
Stop bullying in your school district
The US Department of Education has issued a study ranking New Jersey’s anti-bullying law, which Garden State Equality wrote with legislators, #1 among the anti-bullying laws of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. And The New York Times described New Jersey’s Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights as “the nation’s toughest law against bullying and harassment in schools.” Our resource center will help you make sure your school district is properly enforcing the law.
