Movement Advancement Project, The American Civil Liberties Union, and Lambda Legal. October 2018. Are LGBT Workers Protected from Discrimination? Unravelling the Patchwork of Federal, State, and Local Employment Protections. https://mapresearch.org/brief/are-lgbt-workers-protected-from-discrimination/ June 12, 2026.
A new brief from MAP, the ACLU and Lambda Legal, Are LGBT Workers Protected from Discrimination? Unravelling the Patchwork of Federal, State, and Local Employment Protections, examines the existing federal, state and local laws and court rulings that offer protections to LGBT workers as well as the gaps that leave workers vulnerable to discrimination because case law or legislation isn’t clear or explicit.
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Using data from the Federal Reserve Banks’ annual Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS), the Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR) and the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) have created a first-of-its-kind look at the financial health and needs of LGBTQ-owned small businesses. Key findings include: —LGBTQ businesses were equally
In July/August 2020, NPR, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (NPR/RWJF/Harvard) conducted a five-part polling series to examine the impact of COVID-19 on households in the United States. The poll included a question allowing respondents to identify as LGBTQ. MAP’s report, The
This infographic shows the percentage of people by race living in states without protections who would lose federal workplace protections if the Supreme Court rules that Title VII doesn’t protect LGBT workers.
In light of the three cases the U.S. Supreme Court will consider in October 2019, this infographic shows what will happen if the court rules that Title VII doesn’t protect LGBT workers.
