Terminology
We use the terms race and racial/ethnicity interchangeably throughout the report. We recognize that ethnicity specifically refers to a group bound by culture and sometimes nationality and can be distinct from race as a social grouping and include racially diverse populations (e.g., Latinx or Hispanic identified people). Yet, the ethnic groups we are including in this work on race and LGBT status are treated socially and economically in the U.S. as racial groups (i.e., racialized) (see, e.g., Gómez, 2020).
About the Data
Findings presented in the Home, Health, Social, and Economic sections of this interactive come from Gallup data 2012-2017. Findings presented in the Barriers, Victimization, Discrimination, and Stress sections come from the Generations and TransPop studies, population-based national datasets of LGB and transgender adults in the U.S. Data on AAPI was not available in Generations, so this community does not appear in these sections. The AIAN population represented here consists of multiracial AIAN respondents; therefore, there is crossover between this category and the Black and Latinx categories. Respondents who selected “Hispanic/Latinx” were categorized as Latinx, regardless of any other race(s) selected. Next, respondents who selected “Black” were categorized as Black regardless of any other race(s) selected. White consists of White non-multiracial respondents only. The POC category includes AIAN, AAPI, Black, Latinx, and multiracial respondents.