Reports & Research

The Task Force's Policy Institute conducts groundbreaking research and policy analysis on hot-button issues affecting the LGBT community. We have everything from full reports to fact sheets to our very popular graphic issue maps. (Now in black and white AND color!)

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The Task Force and the Task Force Action Fund are continually coming out with new publications, so check back often for the latest up-to-the-minute facts and figures.

National Transgender Discrimination Survey .
Transgender and gender non-comforming people face shocking levels of discrimination in employment, education, health care and other areas. Read the just released results of this groundbreaking survey.

October 31, 2005

Hispanic and Latino same-sex couple households in the United States: A report from the 2000 Census

There are more than 100,000 Hispanic and Latino same-sex couple households nationwide. These couples are disadvantaged compared to white non-Hispanic same-sex couple households in terms of education, income, homeownership, disability and citizenship status.
October 31, 2005

Grupos familiares de parejas hispanas y latinas del mismo sexo en los Estados Unidos: Un reporte del Censo del 2000

Existen más de 100,000 grupos familiares de parejas hispanas y latinas del mismo sexo nacionalmente. Estas parejas están en desventaja comparadas a los grupos familiares de parejas blancas no hispanas del mismo sexo en términos de educación, ingresos, ser dueños de su propio hogar, incapacidad y estatus de ciudadanía.
August 08, 2005

Selling us short: How Social Security privatization will affect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans

There has been much talk of and several attempts to privatize Social Security. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans will be disproportionately harmed by the privatization of Social Security.
May 17, 2005

Why civil unions are not enough

The federal government alone accords 1,138 benefits and responsibilities based on marital status, not on civil union status.
May 05, 2005

Recent state polls on same-sex marriage and civil unions

While Americans are still split on the issue of marriage equality for same-sex couples, an overwhelming majority support equal access to the specific obligations, responsibilities and recognitions of marriage.
May 03, 2005

A report from ‘Love Won Out: Addressing, understanding, and preventing homosexuality’

“Love Won Out” is an anti-gay conference promoting the ex-gay ministries of the national conservative evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family.
May 02, 2005

Executive summary: A report from ‘Love Won Out: Addressing, understanding, and preventing homosexuality’

"Love Won Out” is an anti-gay conference promoting the ex-gay ministries of the national conservative evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family.
March 22, 2005

Economic benefits of marriage under federal and Connecticut state law

Thousands of Connecticut same-sex couples are at a grave disadvantage because they are unable to enter into a civil marriage that is recognized under state and federal law.
March 15, 2005

Lesbians are women too: A set of fact sheets from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute

Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women of color are minorities within a minority and are significantly disadvantaged when compared to heterosexual women. (Issued in observance of Women's History Month.)
March 02, 2005

Hispanic and Latino same-sex couple households in Florida: A report from the 2000 Census

There are more than 9,000 Hispanic and Latino same-sex couple households in Florida. These families are disadvantaged in terms of education, income, homeownership, disability and citizenship status compared to white non-Hispanic same-sex couple households.
February 06, 2005

Asian Pacific American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: A community portrait

The fact that there have been very few studies of Asian Pacific American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people illustrates how they are overlooked and discriminated against in the broader Asian Pacific American and LGBT communities.
January 11, 2005

Midwest incumbents report: Impact of voting against anti-gay marriage amendments on 2004 re-election campaigns

Voting against anti-gay constitutional amendments had little effect on legislators’ re-election bids in the Midwest.
December 19, 2004

Couples affected by 2004 anti-gay initiatives

Chart breaks down the number of same-sex couples and opposite-sex unmarried couples affected by anti-same-sex-marriage ballot initiatives.
December 09, 2004

Same-sex marriage, civil unions and the 2004 presidential election

Despite claims to the contrary, same-sex marriage did not cost John Kerry the presidential election.
November 15, 2004

The extent of sexual orientation discrimination in Topeka, Kansas

Discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation on the basis of sexual orientation continues to be a problem in the City of Topeka. (Note: This summary contains a post-election update.) This report illustrates how important an ordinance to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity would be.
November 08, 2004

‘Moral values’ voters in the 2004 presidential election

During the 2004 campaign season, Republicans energized and mobilized their core constituency by emphasizing “moral values” in their messages.
November 08, 2004

Some key similarities and differences between lesbian, gay and bisexual voters and all voters in 2004

According to exit polls, lesbian, gay and bisexual voters differ from the broader voting population in some respects and are very similar in others.
November 03, 2004

Moral values and the 2004 election: Moral values and gay and lesbian rights low on the list of concerns to voters, polling shows

Though many have speculated that same-sex marriage cost John Kerry the 2004 presidential election, there is no evidence to back this up.
November 02, 2004

Supporters of marriage equality re-elected in Massachusetts, 2004

Despite efforts by Massachusetts Republican Governor Mitt Romney to make same-sex marriage a wedge issue, all of the incumbent Massachusetts state legislators who voted against an anti-gay marriage amendment were re-elected in 2004.
October 14, 2004

Facts about Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation in U.S. political discourse

Openly lesbian Mary Cheney has received criticism for working for her father Dick Cheney’s anti-gay political campaign.

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