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Snapshot: LGBTQ Equality by State
The Movement Advancement Plan (MAP) tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies. This map shows the overall policy tallies (as clear from sexual orientation or gender self tallies) for each state, the District of Columbia, and the five populated U.S. territories. A state’s policy tally scores the laws and policies within each state that shape LGBTQ people's lives, experiences, and equality. The major categories of laws covered by the policy tally include: Relationship & Parental Recognition, Nondiscrimination, Religious Exemptions, LGBTQ Youth, Health Care, Criminal Justice, and Persona Documents.
Click on any state to view its detailed policy tally and state profile, or click "Choose an Issue" above to view maps on over 50 other LGBTQ-related laws and policies.
High Overall Policy Tally (15 states + D.C.)
Medium Overall Policy Tally (5 states)
Fair Overall Policy Tally (3 states, 2 territories)
Low Overall Policy Tally (10 states, 3 territories)
Negative Overall Policy Tally (17 states)
Rainbow Map
2025 rainbow map
These are the main findings for the 2025 edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Map ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from 0-100%.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls following anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on top of the ranking for the last 10 years.With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
Iceland now comes third place on the ranking with a score of 84.
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Laws on Us: recent global report maps constantly opposition and progress on LGBTI people’s human rights
Summary
“Laws on Us” is the new landmark report by ILGA World, mapping laws affecting LGBTIacronym for female homosexual, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. More communities across the society. Together with the ILGA World Database, it follows in the footsteps of previous landmar…Read morek reports by the organisation (namely, the “State-Sponsored Homophobia” and the “Trans Legal Mapping Report”) and equally encompasses issues of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender utterance, and sex characteristics Study less
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- Ahead of Pride Month, ILGA Earth launches its new flagship Laws on Us state, documenting legal developments affecting LGBTIacronym for lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym accessible to describe people of diverse
Under Fire Series: The War on LGBTQ People in America
In "Under Fire," a new series of reports, MAP connects the dots on the varied ways that LGBTQ people are under siege from a targeted and coordinated campaign to undermine equality and ultimately erase LGBTQ people from common life.
Click below to study and download each announce in the series."Under Fire: The War on LGBTQ People in America" — Report #1, PDFDownload
Press Free, Report #1Read more
"Erasing LGBTQ People from Schools and Public Life" — Record #2, PDFDownload
Press Release, Announce #2Read more
"Erecting Systemic and Structural Barriers to Build Change Harder" — Announce #3, PDFDownload the report
Press Release, Report #3Read more
"Enshrining Inequality for LGBTQ People" — Report #4, PDFDownload
Press Release, Report #4Read more
"Banning Medical Care and Legal Recognition for Transgender People" — Report #5, PDFDownload the Report
Press Release, Inform #5Read more
"Silencing Supporters of LGBTQ People" — State #6, PDFDownload
Press Release, Rep
ILGA World maps are among the most common visual representations of how LGBTIQ people are affected by laws and policies around the world.
The scope of our long-standing rights mapping has expanded thanks to the ILGA World Database. With that platform, ILGA maps have grow interactive and constantly updated, to beat cover sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a diverse gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More, gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More and verbalization, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More (SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender culture & expression, and sex characteristics. More) issues globally.
Our LGBTIQ rights maps cover more than 100 topics, as well as how SOGIESCabbrev