This publication sets out to identify and explain the key gaps in legal equality for LGBT Americans by:Introducing the major state and local laws and policies that protect or harm LGBT people, and providing a breakdown of those laws and policies by state;Showing how protections for LGBT Americans vary based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression;Illustrating how today's legal and policy landscape would shift (and how it would stay the same) if the Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have the right to marry
