Report

Discrimination Against State and Local Government LGBT Employees

An analysis of administrative complaints
July 2014

This article documents evidence of recent discrimination against LGBT public sector workers by analyzing employment discrimination complaints filed with state and local administrative agencies. It was published in the Harvard-Kennedy LGBTQ Policy Journal in 2014.

Highlights
Discrimination against LGB people in the public sector is pervasive and occurs nearly as frequently as discrimination in the private sector.
Filing rates of sexual orientation discrimination complaints are similar to rates of complaints based on race and sex discrimination.
Data on discrimination complaints were collected from 123 states and localities that prohibit discrimination against LGBT workers.
Data Points
1M+
LGBT state and local government workers in the US
200,000
LGBT federal civil service workers

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Discrimination Against State and Local Government LGBT Employees