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!)
If you know exactly what you’re looking for, it’s probably easiest for you to go to a particular section right off the bat: reports, issue maps, or fact sheets. But if you're not sure, or just want to look around, go to the main "Reports and Research" page . Under the "Featured Report" you'll see a search bar. You can either search for a report by name, or by type of report or by a particular issue. If you want to see everything we have to offer—and it is a lot—just look under the search bar. All of our publications are listed there in chronological order.
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
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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.
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May 03, 2005“Love Won Out” is an anti-gay conference promoting the ex-gay ministries of the national conservative evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family.
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May 02, 2005"Love Won Out” is an anti-gay conference promoting the ex-gay ministries of the national conservative evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family.
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March 22, 2005Thousands 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.
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March 15, 2005Lesbian, 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.)
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March 02, 2005There 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.
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February 06, 2005The 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.
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January 11, 2005Voting against anti-gay constitutional amendments had little effect on legislators’ re-election bids in the Midwest.
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December 19, 2004Chart breaks down the number of same-sex couples and opposite-sex unmarried couples affected by anti-same-sex-marriage ballot initiatives.
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December 09, 2004Despite claims to the contrary, same-sex marriage did not cost John Kerry the presidential election.
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November 15, 2004Discrimination 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.
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November 08, 2004During the 2004 campaign season, Republicans energized and mobilized their core constituency by emphasizing “moral values” in their messages.
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November 08, 2004According to exit polls, lesbian, gay and bisexual voters differ from the broader voting population in some respects and are very similar in others.
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November 03, 2004Though many have speculated that same-sex marriage cost John Kerry the 2004 presidential election, there is no evidence to back this up.
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November 02, 2004Despite 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.
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October 14, 2004Openly lesbian Mary Cheney has received criticism for working for her father Dick Cheney’s anti-gay political campaign.
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October 04, 2004Key facts about black-same sex households in the Detroit metropolitan area.
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October 04, 2004Key facts about black-same sex households in the state of Georgia.
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October 04, 2004Key facts about black-same sex households in the Houston metropolitan area.
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October 04, 2004Key facts about black-same sex households in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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October 04, 2004Key facts about black-same sex households in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdalei metropolitan area.