Category Archives: Alaska LGBT Community Statewide Survey

Transgender Focus Groups

Identity did two big research projects in the 1980s called One in Ten (1986) and Identity Reports (1989). The first was a statewide survey of the Alaska LGB population, & the second was more specifically focused on sexual orientation discrimination … Continue reading

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Report from the Community Survey Task Force’s first meeting

The Community Survey Task Force agreed last night to conduct two surveys: a focused Anchorage Discrimination Survey (with initial data in the next year) and a more expansive statewide survey to occur over a longer timeline. Continue reading

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It’s not only about discrimination

The Anchorage LGBT Community Survey isn’t only to address questions about the discrimination and bias LGBT Alaskans face. It will also address a full range of other questions and issues affecting members of our community. Continue reading

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Equality Works and the new Community Survey Task Force

Introducing Shelby Carpenter, LGBT Public Policy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, and among the jump-starters of the Alaska LGBT Community Survey. Continue reading

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Who we are & where we’re at

We introduce the 3 people who are already at work on the Alaska LGBT Community Survey & some of the stuff we’re doing to get this effort up & running: creating a Task Force, & early outreach to the trans community. Continue reading

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Announcing the Alaska LGBT Community Survey

The Alaska LGBT Community Survey will be a statewide survey of Alaska’s gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual populace. We aim to have at least initial results of our survey by April 2011. Continue reading

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