About Keystone Equality
Keystone Equality is a statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization dedicated to
building a more just and equitable Pennsylvania
through education, political action, and community engagement.
Keystone Equality is working to help counties, cities, and other political subdivisions to pass human relations nondiscrimination ordinances similar to the work our leaders did to facilitate the passage in Lehigh County in 2024.
What Keystone Equality has helped accomplish.
What Keystone Equality has helped accomplish.
Lehigh County Human Relations Ordinance Passed
February 14, 2024
Keystone Equality applauds Lehigh County’s passage of the most progressive county human relations ordinance in Pennsylvania on February 14, 2024. Leaders of Keystone Equality are proud to have helped facilitate this passage. The progressive language of Lehigh County’s Human Relations Ordinance has been used in four other political subdivisions, including two counties, to pass similar fully inclusive nondiscrimination laws, protecting 1,500,000+ people not previously protected. Lehigh County’s ordinance establishes county-wide nondiscrimination protections in employment, housing, education, healthcare, and public accommodations for LGBTQ+ people and many other protected classes beyond Pennsylvania state law.
Delaware County Passes Antidiscrimination Law
December 3, 2025
Delaware County passed its county-wide antidiscrimination ordinance on December 3, 2025. Keystone Equality was instrumental in facilitating the passage of this ordinance, which is based on the language of Lehigh County’s progressive ordinance. Delaware County’s ordinance protects rights in employment, housing, education, healthcare, and public accommodations for LGBTQ+ people and many other protected classes beyond Pennsylvania state law.
Photo by: Liz Bradbury
Allentown Passes New Nondiscrimination Law
June 4, 2024
Keystone Equality lauds all seven of Allentown’s City Council Members for cosponsoring and rapidly passing this groundbreaking updated version of their Human Relations Ordinance! Leaders of Keystone Equality are proud to have written and helped to pass this significant legislation.
Chester County Passed Nondiscrimination Law
September 24, 2025
Chester County’s nondiscrimination law uses the progressive language of Lehigh County’s ordinance. Keystone Equality leaders are proud to help pass this important legislation in a non-home rule state. This ordinance is one more step toward ensuring that every person, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion, disability, or any other protected class, can live, work, and participate fully in county life without fear of discrimination. Chester County has set a model that other non-home rule Pennsylvania counties can follow.
Catasauqua Strengthens Local Protections With New Non‑Discrimination Ordinance
October 2025
Catasauqua Borough has adopted a comprehensive non‑discrimination ordinance that ensures residents are protected in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Using the same strong, inclusive language modeled in Lehigh County, the borough affirmed its commitment to fairness and equal opportunity for everyone who lives, works, or visits the community. Keystone Equality partnered with local leaders throughout the process, helping Catasauqua join the growing list of Pennsylvania municipalities taking action to fill the gap left by the absence of statewide protections.
Current County Focus
We have gotten updated nondiscrimination legislation in Lehigh, Chester, and Delaware Counties We are currently working on Bucks, Centre, Montgomery, and Northampton Counties
OUR MISSION
Keystone Equality empowers LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians so they can have a strong political voice in PA.
Through voter mobilization, electoral advocacy, and political organizing, Keystone Equality centers LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians in the fight for equality, equity, and inclusion on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and gender expression identity across our state.
Keystone Equality is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.
Who We Are
Keystone Equality’s volunteer board and volunteer committees are a diverse and ever growing group of committed Pennsylvania LGBTQ+ advocates and allies who believe Pennsylvania-based leadership and community based activism will make a difference.
We believe collaboration must be accountable, transparent, and genuine. We can and will succeed as Pennsylvanians who are standing with and for Pennsylvanians.
We are Keystone Equality, and we are in this together!
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
Whether it is the protecting your right to marry the person you love, or campaigning for LGBTQ+ employment nondiscrimination, or advocating for the ability of transgender youth to gain the benefits of the best public education possible, Keystone Equality stands with and for all LGBTQ+ people residing in Pennsylvania.
That’s why KE are political activists, why we work on PA statewide and municipal legislative projects, why we bring voters information on LGBTQ+ issues, and why we work with local, statewide, and national elected officials and community organizations to ensure you and those you care for are protected from harm.
Volunteer!
Are you good at networking? Maybe you are a social media guru! Do you like public speaking? Or are you just good at typing, spreadsheet creating, or proofreading? Perhaps you simply want to learn about advocacy …
Contact Keystone Equality now to volunteer and help achieve victory!
Keystone Equality is Pennsylvania’s statewide political organization working to advance LGBTQ+ equality, civil rights, and equity by empowering change within our communities and across local, state, and federal government. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians deserve equal rights under the law.
Keystone EQUALITY
Keystone Equality acknowledges that there are ever growing and changing terms that identify sexual and gender minority communities and strives to provide advocacy that will not leave anyone out. Keystone Equality works inclusively for and fully acknowledges the rights of all people in the extended Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Pansexual, Asexual, Two Spirit, Gender Diverse, Nonbinary, plus other communities.
In this website these many communities are indicated by the shortened acronym LGBTQ+.
Please DONATe
Keystone Equality exists because of the support of people like you.
Please help by donating through our secure Zeffy site here or if you prefer to send a check, contact: Chair@keystoneequality.org or call 610-432-5449
Please note that Keystone Equality is a 501c4 organization and as such your contribution is not tax deductible.
