The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law — the preeminent resource for independent research and scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity issues in the United States — has just released its State Resource Map, which promises to provide easy access to the latest state-specific LGBT research. Reports contain the following information:
- estimates of the LGBT population
- maps showing where same-sex couples live by county
- the number and percent of same-sex couples raising children
- race, ethnicity, income, and other demographic information
- evidence documenting discrimination against LGBT employees
- the impact of voter identification laws on transgender voters for states with the most restrictive laws
- the impact of extending the rights and obligations of marriage to same-sex couples on the state budget and economy (for selected states)
Bookmark this valuable resource for future use, and let us know: how pro-LGBT is your state?
The Williams Institute, with Gary Gates in charge, reused 5 old phone surveys to make a sixth brand new survey, with no new research, to “estimate” that there are exactly 2,491,034 gay men in America. To estimate an exact number, down to the 34th of us, is hard for me to grasp, being numerically inclined. To use old flawed data to create new flawed data is not science. Preeminent? Sorry, I just can’t believe much that comes out of the institute after the last bit of mush. Now they purport to show by census tract how many gay couples in Vermont? When the Census bureau itself is prohibited to count gay people, and admits they fudged data they did guess at? How does the WI get such exact numbers from unknown facts?
Meanwhile, if one counts up the gay bars and other pubic businesses in America one finds nearly 5,000 (2,500 of each.) and if one estimates 200 people per Friday passing through each place, one finds 1/2 the alleged gay men out on a Friday night. After a week of us all being out every night, we now have more millions than 2.491 million, and we’d all be so broke and exhausted we could barely fill a gay bar for the rest of the month.
Meanwhile, the National Gay & Lesbian chamber of commerce claims 1.4 million members — say 400,000 are heteros, or even 500,000 — are nearly 1/2 of gay men really members of this organization.
Sorry, I must disagree with data from this source, they seem to be better at counting their next grant than counting gay folks.
The census didn’t count gay people, but it *did* count households headed by a same-sex couple.