LGBT facts and figures

Michael Biggs

Focus of British organizations: Stonewall, Equality Network, LGBT Youth Scotland
Focus of U.S. organizations: Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD
British third-sector grants: Big Lottery Fund, BBC Children in Need, Research funding
Revenue of British organizations: Mermaids.

Source: Stonewall’s annual reports to the Charity Commission.
Method: Adobe’s advanced search used to count the number of whole words in each pdf document: (1) lesbian, lesbians; (2) gay; (3) bi, bisexual, bisexuals; (4) trans, transgender, transsexual, transsexuals.

Source: Equality Network’s annual reports to Companies House.
Method: A Scottish feminist counted the number of words in each document: (1) lesbian, lesbians; (2) gay; (3) bi, bisexual, bisexuals; (4) trans, transgender, transsexual, transsexuals.

Source: LGBT Youth Scotland’s annual reports to Companies House.
Method: A Scottish feminist counted the number of words in each document: (1) lesbian, lesbians; (2) gay; (3) bi, bisexual, bisexuals; (4) trans, transgender, transsexual, transsexuals.

Source: HRC’s annual reports.
Method: Adobe’s advanced search used to count the number of whole words in each pdf document: (1) lesbian, lesbians; (2) gay; (3) bi, bisexual, bisexuals; (4) trans, transgender, transsexual, transsexuals.

Women’s Liberation Front protesting outside HRC headquarters, Washington, DC, January 2019.
(Video)

Source: GLAAD’s annual performance reports.
Method: Adobe’s advanced search used to count the number of whole words in each pdf document: (1) lesbian, lesbians; (2) gay; (3) bi, bisexual, bisexuals; (4) trans, transgender, transsexual, transsexuals.

Source: Database on 360 Giving. All grants from Big Lottery Fund whose title or description includes: lesbian OR gay OR bisexual OR transgender OR transsexual OR LGBT OR LGBTQ.
Method: Sum of the value for grants whose description contains the specified text string. Description missing for some grants in 2014 and earlier years.

Source: BBC Children in Need, Grant Funded Projects ... as at November 2017.
Method: Grants identified by searching each document for the following words: lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans.

Source: Mermaids’ annual reports to the Charity Commission; reports for previous incarnation (charity number 1073991) obtained from the Charity Commission under Freedom of Information.

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Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford

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