9% of men between 18-59 in LA, NYC, Chicago and San Francisco self-identified as gay or bisexual. (Random study in The Social Organization of Sexuality, 1994)

Other estimates: 10% of population (Kinsey, 1948); 2.8% of men, 1.4% of women. (Univ. of Chicago survey, 1994, and national random surveys in England and France)

An estimated 6-14 million children in the U.S. live in gay or lesbian headed households. (Harvard Law Review, 1990)

3-10% of teens in America are gay or lesbian. (TIME Magazine, December 8, 1997)

Equally qualified lesbians will earn 14% less than their straight female counterparts due to bias. (University of Maryland study, 1998)

In 40 of our 50 states today, a person can be fired for being gay or lesbian. (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 1998)

71% of lesbians polled across country were in committed monogamous relationships. (National Association of Women, 1997)

At this date, same-sex marriages are not legal in any of the 50 states. This means that a partner in a same-sex marriage will not automatically get child custody, wrongful death benefits, or visitation rights if the other partner is in the hospital or prison.

30 states and the federal government refuse to recognize same sex marriages even if they become legal in other states.

Gay, lesbian & bisexual youth represent 30% of all teen suicides. (Thomas Marino, Counseling Today, May, 1995)

Gay, lesbian & bisexual youth are more likely to have attempted suicide than their straight peers. (U.S. government survey, 1995, and a report from Harvard Medical School, the Mass. Dept. of Education, and Wake Forest University, 1998)

Gay, lesbian & bisexual youth represent 25% of all homeless youth in the U.S. (U.S. Department of Health Services, 1989)

28% of gay/lesbian youth are forced to drop out of school because of their sexuality. (National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, 1998)

The average high school student in the U.S. hears anti-gay slurs 25 times per day. (Massachusetts Department of Education, 1994)

1 out of 6 gay teens has been beaten badly enough to require medical attention. (Center for Disease Control)

In 1996, newly diagnosed cases of AIDS among gay men in the U.S. dropped as much as 15%. (Center for Disease Control, 1998)

There are 30 million cases of HIV infection in the world. 20.8 million of these are in sub-Sahara Africa and mainly occurred through heterosexual contact. (World Health Organization, 1997)

Heterosexual women of child bearing age are now the highest risk population for AIDS-with greatest proportionate increase among African American men, Latino men, and African American women. (Center for Disease Control, 1997)

Gay men and lesbians (26%) are second only to African American men (33%) as the targets for hate crimes in LA County. (Commission on Human Relations, 1998)

More than 79% of those hate crimes against gay/lesbians were murders, attempted murders, assaults, attempted assaults, rapes, or kidnapping. (Commission on Human Relations, 1998)

97% (LAPD) and 95% (FBI) of child molesters self-identify as heterosexual men.

1 out of every 3 girls in the U.S. will be a victim of childhood sexual abuse before the age of 18; the numbers for boys are 1 in 5. (LA Unified School District, 1998)