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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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