April 2, 2004

Eighty-seven percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangender consumers are more likely to remember ads with gay themes than those without, according to the Gay/Lesbian Consumer Online Census conducted by OpusComm Group and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Sixty-five percent say they are more likely to purchase products or services that are promoted with advertising using gay themes than those that are not.
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March 31, 2004
Fifty-nine percent of Americans said in 1999 that they would vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who was gay, compared with 26 percent in 1978, indicates analysis of Gallup public opinion polls by the American Enterprise Institute.
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March 23, 2004
A poll by the University of Pennsylvania showed that slightly more than half of people ages 18 to 29 would oppose a law in their states that would allow lesbians and gay men to marry a same-sex partner. That compares with 61 percent of 30- to 44-year-olds; two-thirds of 45- to 64-year-olds; and 81 percent of those 65 and older.
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March 17, 2004
Eighty-seven percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people say it's important for the National Institutes for Health to conduct research on health issues of the GLBT community, according to a survey by Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive. Fifty-seven percent of heterosexuals agree.
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March 5, 2004
According to the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, 62.3 percent say that a presidential candidate's stand on same-sex marriage will be a strong, or somewhat strong, factor in their voting decision this November.
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February 25, 2004
Seventy percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people feel it is "extremely important for same-sex couples to be able to marry, according to a study by the Human Rights Campaign. When the difference between marriage and civil unions is explained, the percentage increases to 83 percent.
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February 19, 2004
Forty-five percent of Americans believe gays and lesbians should be able to legally adopt children, according to poll by Newsweek.
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February 12, 2004

According to a Newsweek poll, 22 percent of Americans believe the right amount of effort has been directed toward the gay rights struggle. Twenty-five percent say more effort is needed.
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February 11, 2004

According to the Human Rights Campaign, same-sex couples will potentially lose tens of thousands of dollars in taxes and an average of $5,000 a year in Social Security survivor benefits because of the denial of their right to marry.
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February 5, 2004

Gay, lesbian and bisexual consumers (24 percent) are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts (6 percent) to say, when choosing a retailer, that a company's equal treatment of all employees, including gays and lesbians, African Americans and Latinos influences their decision, according to Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive.
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February 3, 2004

Sixty-four percent of the public supported the right for gays to serve openly in the military, according to an August 2003 Fox News poll. In 2001, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology poll showed 56 percent of the population supporting the right of gays to serve openly in the military.
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January 29,2004

Regardless of their sexual orientation, 7.5 percent of California's total middle- and high-school population face anti-gay harassment, according to a survey conducted for the California Safe Schools Coalition. Twenty-seven percent of the 227,000 students surveyed reported being harassed for not being "masculine enough" or "feminine enough."
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January 25, 2004

Gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) consumers (37 percent) are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts (10 percent) to identify equal treatment of employees, including gays and lesbians, African Americans and Latinos, as an influencing factor in choosing a bank, according to a survey by Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive.
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January 20, 2004

Between 13 percent and 29 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual consumers (depending on product category) say that targeted advertising to gays and lesbians was a specific reason they prefer one brand to another.
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December 23, 2003

While 24.1 percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) high-school students surveyed, who could not identify a supportive teacher or faculty member, had no intention of attending college, this number drops to 10.1 percent for GLBT students who could identify supportive teachers and school staff, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
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December 15, 2003

In 2003, more than four out of five gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students admit to being verbally, sexually or physically harassed because of their sexual orientation, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
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December 11, 2003

There were 1,244 hate crimes based on sexual orientation in 2002, compared with 1,375 in 2001, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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November 25, 2003

A majority of adoption agencies, 60 percent, accept applications from lesbians and gay men, according to a study by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a non-profit organization that researches and promotes adoption. Forty percent have placed children with gay or lesbian parents.
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October 29, 2003

In 2003, more gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people are comfortable introducing their partners to colleagues at work compared to last year, according to a survey conducted by Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive. While only 35 percent of GLBTs felt comfortable in 2002, 51 percent of GLBTs felt comfortable introducing their partners to co-workers.
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October 2, 2003

In 36 states, it still is legal to fire someone based on their sexual orientation and in 48 states it is legal to do so based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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September 17, 2003

Sixty-three percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) respondents were likely to purchase goods or services over the Internet compared with 59 percent of non-GLBT respondents, according to a 2001 Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications survey.
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September 16, 2003

Twenty percent of the GLBT community had seen at least two feature films in the past 30 days, compared with 6 percent of the total U.S. population, according to RainbowReferrals.com, a New York-based real-estate referral site for GLBTs.
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September 11, 2003

Buying power in the gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) market has increased from $450 billion to $485 billion, according to Witeck-Combs Communications and MarketResearch.com.
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September 3, 2003

Seven out of 10 people in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community don't have wills, living trusts or powers of attorney, according to Rainbowlaw.com, an estate-planning Web site for same-sex couples.
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August 7, 2003

Of the 105.5 million households in the United States, 594,000 are headed by unmarried partners of the same sex, according to the 2000 U.S. census.
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July 31, 2003

Twenty-four percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) adults said they have deliberately withheld information about their sexual practices from their doctors, compared with 5 percent of heterosexual adults, according to a 2002 Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive survey.
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July 30, 2003

The 2001 Gay and Lesbian Consumer Online Census finds that 89.9 percent of gay and lesbian respondents attended college with 36.7 percent holding undergraduate degrees and 20.4 percent holding master's or doctoral degrees.
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July 18, 2003

The 2000 U.S. Census reported 601,209 total gay and lesbian families (married and unmarried couples). However, Human Rights Campaign officials believe that the Census undercounted gay and lesbian couples by 62 percent and believe that there are 3.1 million gay and lesbian couples living in the U.S.
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July 17, 2003

GLBT Consumers Own More Pets
Pet ownership is more than 10 percent more common among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) consumers than in the general population, according to the 2002 Gay/Lesbian Consumer Online Census, a Syracuse University, OpusComm Group, GSociety Study.
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June 26, 2003

Employment discrimination has a significant impact on the income of gay men, according to a newly released analysis of US Census 2000 data by the Urban Institute, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. According to the Census 2000 data, gay men earned a median income of $27,000, while heterosexual men earned a median income of $35,500.
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May 29, 2003

The number of companies publicly endorsing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a federal bill to ban anti-gay job bias, increased 50 percent to 90 in 2002, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
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March 12, 2003

About 4 million gay and lesbian people have children under 18, according to And Baby Magazine.
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December 4, 2002

There are 15 million self-identified gays and lesbians nationwide, according to a survey by Witeck-Combs and Harris Interactive.
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November 5, 2002

Gay and lesbian families reside in 99.3 percent of all counties across the United States, with some counties showing increases of gay and lesbian households of more than 700 percent between 1990 and 2000, according to analysis of 2000 Census data by the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.
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