LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers

by Bennett Singer

Other authorsJennifer Finney Boylan (Afterword)
Book, 2017

Publication

The New Press (2017), 352 pages

Collection

Awards

Stonewall Book Award (Honor Book — Non-Fiction — 2018)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Includes a chapter that focuses on bisexual community statistics.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Includes a chapter that focuses on transgender community statistics.

Publisher's Summary: LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer—whose previous books and films on LGBTQ topics have won numerous awards and found audiences worldwide—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...

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