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"Mapping the Gay Guides aims to understand often ignored queer geographies using the Damron Address Books, an early but longstanding travel guide aimed at gay men since the early 1960s. Learn more here, and engage with their map which displays the location of each entry in Bob Damron’s Address Books between 1965 and 1985 and  “Vignettes,” or short case studies based on the visualizations

ACLU Legislative Map: Mapping attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024.

LBGTData.com: A no-cost, open-access clearinghouse for the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data and measures. 

LGBTQ Equality by State (Movement Advancement Project): Tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies.

EQUALDEX: Explore the Progress of LGBTQ+ Rights Across the World: The site aims to crowdsource every law related to LGBT rights to provide a comprehensive and global view of the LGBT rights movement.

Number of Elected LGBTQ Officials Worldwide (Queer Politics at Princeton: Our searchable map and database includes all out LGBTQI+ elected officials since 1976.

2019 (ICPSR 37166): The Generations study is a five-year study designed to examine health and well-being across three generations of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB). 

Social Justice Sexuality Project: 2010 National Survey, including Puerto Rico (ICPSR 34363) One of the largest national surveys of Black, Latina/o, Asian and Pacific Islander, and multiracial lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. 

National Transgender Discrimination Survey, [United States], 2008-2009 (ICPSR 37888): This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn.

Mapping LGBTQ Equality: 2010 to 2020, United States (ICPSR 37877): A policy tally by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), and encompassed nearly 40 LGBTQ-related laws and policies across all 50 states and territories.

TransPop, United States, 2016-2018 (ICPSR 37938): The TransPop study is the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States (it also includes a comparative cisgender sample).

2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) (ICPSR 37229): The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) was conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) to examine the experiences of transgender adults in the United States.

The Criminalization of LGBQ/GNCT Youth, California, 2014 (ICPSR 37001): The researchers examined sexual-orientation and gender conformity disparities in criminalization for prostitution. 

Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law: US & State Data:Our data interactives provide information on LGBT people in the United States in a dynamic and customizable visual format.

Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) : Gender Identity, Sexual Behaviour, Sexual Orientation: Studies on Gender Identity, Sexual Behaviour, Sexual Orientation in the CESSDA Data Catalogue.

Resources for Research on Gender Identity, Sexual Behavior, and Sexual Orientation (ICPSR): Here you'll find data resources for those interested in studying gender identity, sexual behavior, and sexual orientation, or in finding datasets in which those populations are well-represented. 

About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth (Pew Research Center): A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary.

Attitudes about transgender issues vary widely among Christians, religious ‘nones’ in U.S. (Pew Research Center): Growing shares of Americans believe that a person’s gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.