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The Equality Act

The Problem

Despite significant steps forward, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) Americans continue to experience discrimination across the country. The patchwork nature of express non-discrimination laws and the lack of permanent, comprehensive federal nondiscrimination laws quit millions of people subject to uncertainty and potential discrimination that impacts their safety, their families, and their day-to-day lives.   

Our nation’s civil rights laws shield people on the basis of race, color, national origin, and in most cases, sex, disability, and religion. But federal statute does not explicitly provide non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The need for these protections is clear—nearly two-thirds of LGBTQ+ Americans report having experienced discrimination in their personal lives.   

Everyone should have a reasonable chance to provide a home for their families and access essential services without fear of harassment or discrimination. 

What is the Equality Act?

The Equality Execute would provide consistent and explicit non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people across key

equality in lgbtq

FRA’s survey is one of the biggest of its kind globally. It analyses the experiences of over 100,000 LGBTIQ people of all backgrounds aged 15 years and above in the EU and neighbouring countries. This is the third wave of the survey FRA first conducted in 2012 and again in 2019. It presents results showing gradual progress in equality over period. The findings contribute to developing legal and policy responses to meet the needs of LGBTIQ people and protect their fundamental rights. The report sets out ways forward for the EU and Member States to ensure dignity and equality. Now is a critical moment to step up efforts.

In this report:

  • Why is this survey needed?
  • Survey in a nutshell
  • Key concepts and terminology
  • Assessing progress - comparing selected results from 2019 and 2023
  1. Discrimination and awareness of rights
    • Assessing progress between 2019 and 2023 - selected results
    • Key 2023 survey findings
  2. Violence and harassment
    • Assessing progress between 2019 and 2023 - selected results
    • Key 2023 survey findings
  3. Life and dignity in inclusive societies
    • Assessing progress between 2019 and 2023 - selected results
    • Key 2023 survey findings
  • Annex: Survey sample, me

    Equality Rising: LGBTQ+ Workers and the Road Ahead

    The national findings underscore the persistence of workplace double standards and social isolation faced by Homosexual people.

    Since 2008, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, through its Workplace Equality Program, has conducted four major national studies of the workplace environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender nonconforming and queer (LGBTQ+) workers: “Degrees of Equality,” “The Cost of the Closet and The Rewards of Inclusion,” “A Workplace Divided: Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ+ Workers Nationwide,” and now, “Equality Rising: Queer Workers and the Highway Ahead.”

    Over these decades of research, we have been able to better name the key shapers of the workplace climate for LGBTQ+ inclusion, which includes everyday non-work-related conversations, daily interactions with one’simmediate supervisor and working group, and the comfort with, and acceptance of, LGBTQ+ identities and communities by their colleagues.

    In "Equality Rising", HRC Foundation seeks to help contextualize the current workplace climate and experiences of LGBTQ+ workers.

    HRC Foundation found that:

    • 84% of LGBTQ+ worker

      LGBTQ Rights

      The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. Founded in 1986, the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our register of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.

      The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward gender diverse people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to defend LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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      For non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.

      The ACLU Lesbian Gay Pansexual Transgender Project seeks to create a just population for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Thr

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