I have compared data from 2015 and 2010 American Community Survey tables on marriage in order to see what the official statistics are on same sex marriage. I have researched the institution of same-sex marriage as a category and its incorporation in this survey, as well as the dicennial census in order to contextualize these statistics. I have also web-scraped Congressional Research Service reports on the issue of same sex marriage to provide further government information on the topic.

I have compared the data that I collected through web-scraping a number of published articles in two different magazines in regards to the topic of LGBTQ Art. One magazine is Posture Magazine a LGBTQ magazine created for and with the LGBTQ readers in mind. The other magazine is Huffington Post, which is not primarily a LGBTQ magazine but definitely lends their perspective of LGBTQ art through the Queer voice.

I looked at the CDC's National Health Interview Survey from the years 2014 and 2016 to compare the way that people self identify as LGB in that there is no option for LGBT or Q. I looked that the limits of assessing this data as something definitive and the limits that exist for government data.