Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey Publications
Produced by the
HRC Foundation
The Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey (ALCS) is one of the largest ongoing research efforts dedicated to documenting the lived experiences, priorities, and challenges of LGBTQ+ people across the United States.
The survey provides timely insights into issues such as health equity, safety and belonging, civic engagement, economic stability, and policy impacts.
This page serves as the central hub for ALCS reports, data briefs, and methodological documentation.
Reports, Issue Briefs, and Methodology from the ALCS 2025
The One Year In: LGBTQ+ Americans Under the Trump Administration report compiles results from analyses using 2025 ALCS data (those published below) to illuminate the realities of life for LGBTQ+ Americans today.
It takes an exclusive look at LGBTQ+ statistics around acceptance, outness, visibility, employment, financial security, and health.
| Title | Summary | Brief Link | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage Equality and the Supreme Court | This survey is among the first to explicitly reference Obergefell and the possibility of its reversal by the Supreme Court. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| Fatal Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in the U.S. | This report summarizes key statistics from fatal violence cases between 2013-2025, and presents new analyses from our 2025 Community Survey. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| HIV Care Access in the United States | U.S. adults said policies the federal government have made accessing HIV prevention and treatment care more difficult in the last year. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| Slipping Acceptance, Outness, and Visibility | This brief examines how experiences of discrimination are associated with perceived declines in LGBTQ+ acceptance, and how those perceptions relate to changes in outness and visibility over the past year. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| How Discrimination and Government-Sponsored Exclusion Undermine Financial and Economic Security | Discrimination in workplaces and financial institutions, coupled with policy environments that limit economic opportunity, continues to erode financial well-being and widen disparities in economic prosperity, especially for LGBTQ+ people. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| How Discrimination and Government-Sponsored Exclusion Weaken Health and Trust in Federal Health Agencies | This brief examines how health disparities among LGBTQ+ adults are shaped not only by individual circumstances but also by discrimination and exclusionary policy environments. It also examines current attitudes toward U.S. health agencies. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| The Cost of Retreating from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The present analysis builds upon decades of HRC Foundation research on workers in large companies in the United States. LGBTQ+ visibility at work has expanded, but remains highly contingent on workplace climate. | Read the Brief | Methodology Report |
| State of the Workplace for LGBTQ+ Americans and Corporate Equality Index 2026 | This year’s report offers the most complete picture yet of the state of LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion, integrating policy analysis and firsthand experiences from LGBTQ+ workers nationwide. It tells a clear story: transparency is the foundation of trust, belonging, and business resilience. | Read the Report | Methodology Report |
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