National LGBTQ Task Force

Legal Aid & Advocacy · New Jersey · Free

Advocacy, organizing, and resources for LGBTQ+ liberation. Trains and supports community-based legal advocacy. For LGBTQ+ people needing help with name/gender ID changes, second-parent adoption, discrimination, immigration, or estate planning. Discrimination claims have short windows — federal EEOC is 180–300 days from the incident depending on state. Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) made workplace LGBTQ+ discrimination illegal under federal Title VII — many people still don't know they're protected....

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