Just under one percent of federal government employees who responded to a 2005 survey reported having been "denied a job, promotion, pay, or other job benefit because of unlawful discrimination based upon" their sexual orientation.
The survey, which was conducted by the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), asked a representative sample of 36,926 employees if they had encountered discrimination based on one of eight factors and 0.9 percent of the total said they had experienced discrimination due to their sexual orientation.
Discrimination based on age led with 7.8 percent of respondents reporting that, followed by "race/national origin" at 6.5 percent, sex at 6.4 percent, disability at 2.1 percent, marital status and political affiliation, both at 1.3 percent, and religion at 1.1 percent.
Gay City News found the survey while reporting a story on the ten-year anniversary of a 1998 executive order signed by President Bill Clinton that barred discrimination based on sexual orientation in federal civilian employment. The MSPB asked the same question in the 2007 version of the survey, but those results have not been tabulated.
http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19787162&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6Frankly, given seven years of GOP "leadership" at the federal level, I'm surprised the figure on anti-LGBT discrimination isn't hire. Perhaps victims of discrimination feared retaliation even for filling out a survey.
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