In a UK context, the Beyond Barriers (2003) project surveyed 924 participants from the
LGBT population in Scotland using online questionnaires and an online focus group, while
a recent Stonewall report (Hunt and Dick 2008) exploring gay and lesbian people’s
expectations of discrimination in the UK surveyed 1,658 lesbian, gay and bisexual adults.
Jones (2010) uses this latter report to highlight the problems associated with the uncritical
use of sexual categories in LGBT research, namely the various ways by which the B and the
T elements of the acronym may become easily lost and therefore invisible, leaving the
focus of work on only the lesbian and gay elements of the LGBT grouping.