How many support lgbtq

Snapshot: LGBTQ Equality by State

The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies.  This guide shows the overall policy tallies (as distinct from sexual orientation or gender identity tallies) for each state, the District of Columbia, and the five populated U.S. territories. A state’s policy tally scores the laws and policies within each state that shape LGBTQ people's lives, experiences, and equality. The major categories of laws covered by the policy tally include: Relationship & Parental Recognition, Nondiscrimination, Religious Exemptions, LGBTQ Youth, Health Care, Criminal Justice, and Identity Documents.  

Click on any state to view its detailed policy tally and state profile, or click "Choose an Issue" above to view maps on over 50 distinct LGBTQ-related laws and policies. 

  • High Overall Policy Tally (15 states + D.C.)

  • Medium Overall Policy Tally (5 states)

  • Fair Overall Policy Tally (3 states, 2 territories)

  • Low Overall Policy Tally (10 states, 3 territories)

  • Negative Overall Policy Tally (17 states)
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    LGBTQ+ facts and figures

    An overview of the challenges faced by Queer people in various aspects of life, including health, community, employment, education, and sport, as well as from an international perspective. 

    Health
    • One in eight LGBT people (13%) have experienced some form of unequal treatment from healthcare staff because they’re LGBT.
    • Almost one in four LGBT people (23%) have witnessed discriminatory or negative remarks against LGBT people by healthcare staff.
    • One in seven LGBT people (14%) have avoided treatment for fear of discrimination because they’re LGBT.
    • Seven in ten trans people (70%) report being impacted by transphobia when accessing general health services.
    • Nearly half of trans people (45%) said that their GP did not have a excellent understanding of their needs as a trans person, rising to over half of non-binary people (55%).
    • 90% of trans people reported experiencing delays when pursuing transition-related healthcare.
    • Trans people of colour also experienced transphobia from trans-specific healthcare providers at more than double the rate of pale respondents (13% compared to 6%)

    Taken from LGBT in Britain: Health (2018) and TransActual

    LGBTQ Rights

    The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. Founded in 1986, the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our write down of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.

    The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward non-binary people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to defend LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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    For non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.

    The ACLU Lesbian Gay Multi-attracted Transgender Project seeks to create a just culture for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Thr

    ICYMI: New Statistics Shows Support for LGBTQ+ Rights Reaches Highest Rates Ever Recorded

    • 10% of Americans now spot as LGBTQ+

    • Eight in ten Americans favor laws that would protect LGBTQ+ people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing

    • 66% of Republicans favor nondiscrimination provisions for Gay people

    • Seven in ten Americans support marriage equality, including nearly half of Republicans

    • Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) oppose religiously based refusals to serve LGBTQ+ people

    • Majorities of almost every major religious collective oppose allowing religiously based service refusals

    Summary of Key Sections

    Full findings: PRRI: Findings From the 2022 American Values Atlas

    Eight in Ten Endorse Nondiscrimination Laws to Protect LGBTQ+ People

    Eight in ten Americans (80%) favor laws that would shield gay, lesbian, bisexual person, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing. This includes 48% who strongly support such laws. About one in five Americans (18%) oppose these laws, including 7% who strongly contradict them. Support for these protections has increased ove

    LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification finds 9.3% of U.S. adults identifying as lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an multiply of more than a percentage signal versus the prior estimate, from 2023. Longer term, the figure has nearly doubled since 2020 and is up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup first measured it.

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    LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans penetrate adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- spot as LGBTQ+. Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946.

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    LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people contain also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years.

    Gallup has