How many states prohibit discrimination in employment and housing?
Twenty-four states - California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin - forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment and housing. According to the housing and employment discrimination statistics provided by the Williams Institute, that leaves 3.92 million LGBTQ people in the US insufficiently protected from workplace discrimination and 5.37 million unprotected from housing discrimination.