Victory Institute conducts or commissions research to better understand the impact of LGBTQ elected officials and leaders on moving equality forward in the Uni…
LGBTQ Victory Institute's The Decision to Run Report set out to uncover the barriers and motivators for LGBTQ women who want to run for office. The findings --…
While the number of known openly LGBTQ elected officials has grown by 88 percent since our first Out for America report in November 2017, LGBTQ people remain s…
In 2018, the nation experienced the “Rainbow Wave,” an unprecedented number of LGBTQ candidates who won elected office. The 2019 Out for America report—the thi…
The Out for America report is an annual analysis of LGBTQ elected representation in government based on Victory Institute’s LGBTQ elected officials database—th…
This report documents the current landscape of LGBTQ elected officials in America, based on Victory Institute’s LGBTQ elected officials database—the largest an…
An analysis of Victory Fund electoral data from 2007 – 2016 finds LGBTQ women candidates endorsed by Victory Fund won their elections at significantly higher r…
The third brief in the “More Than Represent” series examines the impact LGB representatives had on influencing straight lawmaker colleagues to vote in favor of…
The second brief in the “More Than Represent” series examines the impact openly LGBTQ state legislators have on thwarting anti-equality legislation opponents p…
The first brief in the “More Than Represent” series examines the relationship between the current level of LGBTQ equality in the states and the number of openl…
