Logan S. Casey, PhD

LGBTQ Politics Data

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The field of LGBTQ politics is vibrant and growing.

Here are just a few of the archives, resources, and data sources in this area.

Please also visit LGBTData.com for a collection of data sources that include sexual orientation.

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(this page last updated early 2020)

 

Archives & Timelines

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• ACT UP Oral History Project

• GLBT Historical Society - San Francisco, CA

• Jean-Nickolas Tretter Collection - University of Minnesota

• June Mazer Lesbian Archives - CA

• ​Lesbian Herstory Archives

• Online Archive of California - search LGBT or terms of interest

• OutHistory.org -  LGBT-related timelines, oral histories, and more

• Pride at Work Archives - University of Maryland

• Queer Appalachia Oral History Project - University of Kentucky

• Transgender Archives - University of Victoria

• Tretter Transgender Oral History Project - University of Minnesota

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Quantitative Data

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• The Movement Advancement Project (MAP)

  • Equality Maps - tracking over 50 LGBTQ-related laws and policies at the state and local level across the 50 states, D.C., and five U.S. territories​

  • Many, many reports and resources on LGBTQ people, policies, experiences, and much more. For example"

    • Mapping LGBTQ Equality: 2010 to 2020 (Jan 2020) - data available via ICPSR

    • Where We Call Home: LGBT People in Rural America (April 2019)

      • And follow-up reports on LGBT people of color and transgender people in rural areas

    • Mapping Transgender Equality in the United States (Feb 2017)

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• The Williams Institute (UCLA)

  • A wealth of data, including on the demographics of the LGBTQ population in the U.S., policy implications, and much, much more​

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• AdRespect Commercial Library

  • Collection of commercial ads featuring LGBTQ representation (good and bad)

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• American National Election Study (ANES)

  • Time-Series Data every four years (presidential election years) since 1948

    • LG feeling thermometer starting 1984

    • Various LGBT-related policies starting as early as 1988

    • Respondent sexual orientation starting 2008

  • 2013 Internet Re-contact study, Section O

  • 1994 Report by Douglas Strand on 1993 Pilot Study: "Homosexuality, Gay Rights, and the Clinton Coalition"

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• Census (U.S.)

  • American Community Survey Data on Same-Sex Couples

  • Census Main Page on Same-Sex Couples

  • Census Reporter - Same-Sex Couples

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• Community Marketing & Insights, Inc

  • LGBTQ owned and operated commercial/market research on the LGBTQ community

  • Some reports available for download​​

  • LGBTQ panel of 80,000+ available for quantitative and qualitative research

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• G​allup's LGBT-related polling data

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• LGBTData.com - ongoing collection of data sources

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• Logo TV/Harris poll on 2012 Presidential Election

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• Pew Research Center

  • A Survey of LGBT Americans: Attitudes, Experiences, and Values in Changing Times (2013) ​

  • Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage, 2001-2019 (2019)

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• University of North Carolina's LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative 

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• U.S. Transgender Survey (2015) 

  • Largest ever survey of transgender and nonbinary people in the United States. n>28,000.​

  • Includes breakout reports on different communities of color and by U.S. state.

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