Our Research
Research from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey
The Household Pulse Survey is one of the largest ongoing federal research efforts dedicated to capturing the real-time experiences, conditions, and needs of households across the United States.
The survey provides timely insights into the experiences and needs of U.S. households — and, in its 2021–2024 rounds, included measures of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, the HRC Foundation produced updated estimates regarding the size and demographic composition of the LGBTQ+ adult population in the United States. These estimates include breakdowns by age, race and ethnicity, education, region, state, and major metropolitan area. The analysis uses federal data collected from 2021 through 2024, before the widespread removal of sexual orientation and gender identity measures from federal data collections.
Research from the Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey
The Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey (ALCS) is one of the largest ongoing research efforts dedicated to documenting the lived experiences, priorities, and challenges of LGBTQ+ people across the United States.
The survey provides timely insights into issues such as health equity, safety and belonging, civic engagement, economic stability, and policy impacts.
For National Coming Out Day, new findings from HRC Foundation’s 2026 Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey show that most LGBTQ+ adults remain open about who they are. More people say they have become more open rather than less open, even as safety concerns, the political climate, and declining perceived acceptance shape decisions about visibility.
New data from the 2026 Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey show a community highly likely to vote, focused on civil rights and economic security, and deeply concerned about federal policy direction and key legal protections.
This year’s report offers the most complete picture yet of the state of LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion, integrating policy analysis and firsthand experiences from LGBTQ+ workers nationwide. It tells a clear story: transparency is the foundation of trust, belonging, and business resilience.
This report compiles results from analyses using 2025 ALCS data to illuminate the realities of life for LGBTQ+ Americans today. It takes an exclusive look at LGBTQ+ statistics around acceptance, outness, visibility, employment, financial security, and health.
This survey is among the first to explicitly reference Obergefell and the possibility of its reversal by the Supreme Court.
This report summarizes key statistics from fatal violence cases between 2013-2025, and presents new analyses from our 2025 Community Survey.
U.S. adults said policies the federal government have made accessing HIV prevention and treatment care more difficult in the last year.
This brief examines how experiences of discrimination are associated with perceived declines in LGBTQ+ acceptance, and how those perceptions relate to changes in outness and visibility over the past year.
Discrimination in workplaces and financial institutions, coupled with policy environments that limit economic opportunity, continues to erode financial well-being and widen disparities in economic prosperity, especially for LGBTQ+ people.
This brief examines how health disparities among LGBTQ+ adults are shaped not only by individual circumstances but also by discrimination and exclusionary policy environments. It also examines current attitudes toward U.S. health agencies.
The present analysis builds upon decades of HRC Foundation research on workers in large companies in the United States. LGBTQ+ visibility at work has expanded, but remains highly contingent on workplace climate.