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Kasz216 on 24 December 2008
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steven787 said:

I didn't say there weren't legal problems, I said that the base of the problem and the solution were social.

Your own link supports my statement:
"The GAO found that a small percentage—never more than about
3%—of state employment discrimination complaints were claims of sexual
orientation bias. It concluded that, “relatively few formal complaints of
employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation have been
filed, either in absolute numbers or as a percentage of all employment
discrimination complaints in the state.”"

Read the rest of the article... that's about the total number... it's not population based.

Exerts from the article

"adjusting the raw data to account for the size of the gay workforce
suggests rates of complaint filing much closer to those of race and
gender than the small number of actually filed sexual orientation
complaints might imply."


"In eight of ten surveyed states, gay workers file claims of sexual
orientation discrimination more often than women file claims of gender bias.
These states are Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin."

"The raw data mask the similar filing rates of these different types of
discrimination. In Massachusetts, for example, MCAD receives an annual
average of 822 complaints of gender discrimination and 111 complaints of
sexual orientation discrimination. A quick glimpse at this data would imply
that there are roughly eight times as many gender complaints as there are
sexual orientation complaints. However, there are about 1.5 million women
in the workforce. The number of gay workers is much smaller. At the
lowest level of my range, there are about 61,000 gay workers in the
workforce, while at the highest possible level, there are about 325,000"