This infographic represents my look at the sentiments of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans in 2000. There isn’t a lot of hard data about the lives of the GLBT community. While there is a lot of anecdotal information, wonderful storytelling of our history and even good documentaries about our lives, quantified open data is hard to come by. This study, done 13 years ago shows the state of insecurity and lack of safety many GLBT felt and demonstrates the toll taken by inequality and homophobia.

Now, as the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down DOMA and sent Proposition 8 back to California, we stand at the beginning of a new era for GLBT people. I’d love to see this study replicated to do a comparison over time and update this sentiment graph. And as GLBT people feel less threatened and more willing to come out, hopefully they will be more willing to participate in data gathering exercises that will help us create a true picture of life in America as a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered person.

If you have access to data that warrants a data visualization approach, I would love to hear from you and see what we can see in your data.