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LGBT Pride Month Facts & Figures

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Demographics

OF TOTAL POPULATION(between 9 and16.4 million)

3-5%

2011 OUT LGBT U.S.

POPULATION (ESTIMATED)

TOTAL SAME-SEX U.S. HOUSEHOLDS

WHICH AREAS ARE LGBT-FRIENDLY?

California

Washington

Seattle

Oregon

Maryland

Delaware

New Jersey

New Hampshir

Vermont

District of Columbia

Iowa

Illinois

ConnecticutMassachuset

Cambridge

States/District Issuing MarriageLicenses to Same-Sex Couples

Statewide Laws Providing

Equivalent of State-LevelSpousal Rights toSame-Sex Couples

Top 10 LGBT-Friendly Cities

NewYork

SaltLakeCity

Knoxville

Atlanta

St. Paul &Minneapolis

AnnArbor

GrandRapids

Nevada

Orlando

Ft. Lauderdale

Hawai

The Advocates criteria or LGBT-riendly cities includes such items as: laws protectingtransgender people, LGBT elected ofcials, LGBT bookstores, sports (having a WNBA team,sotball teams that competed in the Gay Sotball World Series)

Source: Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Census Bureau,The Williams Institute, Witeck-Combs Communications

Source: Source: Human Rights Campaign; Williams Institute, The Advocate

Same-Sex Married-Couple Households(*data not available before 2010)

Same-Sex Unmarried-Partner Households

Total Same-Sex Couple Households

594,391

358,390

131,729*

646,464

514,735

2000

2011

AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME:

LGBT CUSTOMER LOYALTY

LGBT People

HOME OWNERSHIP BY

% OF POPULATION

1 Wells Fargo

2 IBM

3 KPMG

4 Ernst & Young

5 Sodexo

6 PricewaterhouseCoopers

7 Toyota Motor North America

8 AT&T

9 Capital One

10 Deloitte

Think that brand loyalty is moreimportant than price or convenience

Are likely to consider brandsthat support nonprots and/orcauses that are important to them

Are likely to consider a brand that is knoto provide equal workplace benets

62%

74%

71%

78%

66%

81%

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Money & Family Matters

WHAT FACTORS SET THE DIVERSITYINC TOP 10

COMPANIES FOR LGBT EMPLOYEES APART FROM OTHERS?

100%have active programs to recruit LGBT peoplevs. 86% o the DiversityInc Top 50

100% oer adoption-assistance programs

70%oer paid time o or paternity leave100%o their nondiscrimination policies include gender identity100%oer partner bereavement leave100%oer partner/amily medical leave

The 2012 DiversityInc Top 10Companies for LGBT Employees

of all adopted childrenin the United States

are being raised by gayor lesbian parents

4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Source: Harris Interactive

100%o The DiversityInc

Top 50 Companies

or Diversity have

LGBT resource

groups and oer

domestic-partner

health benefts to

same-sex couples

Same-sex-couple households

Married opposite-sex-couple households

Unmarried opposite-sex-couple households

$106,282

$86,469

$55,017

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Same-sexcouples

76.6%

Unmarriedopposite-sex

couples

44.1%

Marriedopposite-sex

couples

78.3%

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