Help Us Defend Our LGBTQ Rights

Help Us Defend Our
LGBTQ Rights

Equality North Carolina is the oldest statewide organization in the country dedicated to securing rights and protections for the LGBTQ community. We’re invested in ensuring that every North Carolinian can see themselves in this movement and helping create a safer, more equitable world for all marginalized folks. Together we can build a better North Carolina.

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Equality NC Voting Hub

Equality NC Voting Hub

Voting is so crucial–it’s one of the most impactful ways you can make a difference in the existing political structure. Registering to vote–and then turning up at the polls–is one terrific step. We’re so pleased to offer these tools for folks to become voters! The future of North Carolina depends on your vote!
Join The ENC Crew

Join The ENC Crew

Get insider access to the work of Equality North Carolina and the communities we serve all across this state.
Take Action Against Hateful Legislation

Take Action Against Hateful Legislation

In the past few weeks, our opposition in the NC Legislature has introduced a slate of bigoted bills, targeting the LGBTQ+ community, especially trans kids. Take action!

Vision

We envision a thriving, liberated North Carolina with a powerful LGBTQ+ community united in service of racial and social justice.

Mission

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.

Values

  • We hold people at the center of all that we do: we see, hear, respect, and value each other.
  • We honor and build power on the margins until the margins are the center.
  • We know all oppression is interconnected. None of us are free until all of us are free.
  • We work strategically and sustainably: our work holds the realities of the need for both long- and short-term progress.
  • Y’all means all. We believe in the inherent dignity and worth of all, including people who are LGBTQ+, Black, Brown, Indigenous, Workers, Women, Resource Poor, Incarcerated, Immigrants, Undocumented, Rural.

  • Why Support
    Equality NC

    The long-term goal of Equality NC is to enact statewide nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity & expression in housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, and education without exemptions that treat LGBTQ people differently from other protected groups. We provide training and education to individuals, institutions, businesses and the government on how to provide diverse, inclusive, and equitable environments. Additionally, we work to mobilize our communities and partners to advocate and take action against discriminatory practices. ENC achieves these goals through the core strategies of Advocacy, Training and Education, Leadership Development, and Base-building.

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    Recent News

    Equality NC is hiring an Executive Director!

    Equality NC is hiring an Executive Director!

    The new E.D. will provide motivational leadership of Equality NC – all with deep and intentional focus on equity and inclusion.

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    North Carolina Governor Vetoes Three Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills

    North Carolina Governor Vetoes Three Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills

    Advocates in North Carolina urge NCGA to sustain righteous vetoes while preparing the community for potential enactment.

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    A Letter from Kendra: Seeing Ourselves in the Movement

    A Letter from Kendra: Seeing Ourselves in the Movement

    And as I continue the work of seeing myself in this movement, I know the time has come for me to take on another role, that of building up infrastructure for our liberation. So I have made the bittersweet decision to leave Equality NC in late 2023 to continue my path of servant leadership to the scaffolding of this movement.

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