LGBTQ Stats

The Stonewall Honor Award–winning book of myth-busting facts and figures about the real lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an openly transgender woman. LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Award winning authors Deschamps and Singer provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities. A chapter on LGBTQ life around the globe contrasts the dramatic progress for LGBTQ people in the United States with violent backlash in countries such as Russia, Iran, and Nigeria, which have discriminatory laws that make same-sex activity punishable by prison or death. A lively, accessible, and eye-opening snapshot, LGBTQ Stats offers an invaluable resource for activists, journalists, lawmakers, and general readers who want the facts and figures on LGBTQ lives in the twenty-first century. "An important and indispensable research tool." —Booklist, starred review "The most comprehensive portrait of LGBTQ life around." —M.V. Lee Badgett, economist and author of The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World "A riveting chronicle." —Mandy Carter, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, co-founder of Southerners on New Ground, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee "A crucial portrait of where we are on the road to equality and acceptance." —Steven Petrow, Civilities columnist at the Washington Post and former president of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists