National

Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) was founded when the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) merged. A4TE fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in America.

National

American Civil Liberties Union

Provides information and resources for LGBTQ people and issues from a national perspective

Statewide

American Civil Liberties Union Minnesota

Founded in 1952 as the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Minnesota continues to promote, protect, and extend the civil liberties and civil rights of people in Minnesota through litigation, lobbying, and community engagement.

Metro

Cornerstone

Cornerstone was founded in 1983 to connect women in crisis due to domestic violence with support and safety. Since then, we’ve become a multifaceted nonprofit with accessible, innovative and comprehensive services for adults and youth of all genders who are experiencing or have experienced domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking or crime.

Statewide
verified

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.

National

GLAD

For 45 years, GLAD has pursued cutting-edge legal strategies to ensure people across the country can live and thrive on our own terms, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or HIV status.

National

Lambda Legal

Lambda Legal’s lawyers have won precedent-setting civil rights cases on everything from marriage equality to expressions of gender identity to health care discrimination. We have made legal history since day one, winning our right to incorporate. We then got to work using our knowledge of the law to fight for our community’s lives and dignity.

Metro
verified

Minnesota Lavender Bar Association

Association of LGBTQ and ally lawyers, other legal professionals, and law students

National

Modern Military Association of America

The Modern Military Association of America is a united voice for the LGBTQ+ military and veteran community. MMAA works to uphold and expand the civil rights progress made on behalf of the LGBTQ+ military and veteran community through education, advocacy, support networks, and discrimination tracking.

National

National Center for Lesbian Rights

NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.

National

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.

Metro

Tubman Center

Provides safe shelter, legal services, mental and chemical health counseling, elder abuse resources, youth programming and community education, including public information campaigns to provide community members the information and support they need to get help or give help

National

U.S. Department of Justice

Report a hate crime