Reports

Relationships at Risk: Why We Need to Update State Parentage Laws to Protect Children and Families

This report explains how the current patchwork of parentage laws across the country – many of which haven’t been updated in decades – leaves LGBTQ parents and their children vulnerable.

LGBTQ Policy Spotlight: Mapping LGBTQ Equality in the U.S. South

More LGBTQ people live in the U.S. South than in any other region of the United States. But for the one in three LGBTQ adults who call the South home, the South is the most hostile LGBTQ state policy landscape

Mapping LGBTQ Equality: 2010 to 2020

This report presents a fresh perspective on the current status of LGBTQ equality in the states by examining MAP’s policy tally, encompassing nearly 40 LGBTQ-related laws and policies across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S.

LGBT Policy Spotlight: LGBT Equality in the U.S. Territories

The Bottom Line The United States’ long history of territorial expansion has resulted in a truly complicated system of governance for territory residents, where even the U.S. Constitution doesn’t always apply. Examining each of the five territories across the more

Putting Children at Risk: How Efforts to Undermine Marriage Equality Harm Children

The Bottom Line Putting Children at Risk: How Efforts to Undermine Marriage Equality Harm Children shows how these coordinated efforts pose a profound threat to the children in LGBT families. First, some government officials, state legislators, and courts have refused

Mapping Transgender Equality in the United States

The Bottom Line The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has seen both significant progress and painful setbacks recently. The 2015 Supreme Court ruling in favor of the freedom to marry was a major step toward legal equality, and

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