LibGuides: LGBTQIA+ Legal Research: Research Centers

Centers and Institutes

Columbia Law School - Center for Gender and Sexuality Law The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law has established Columbia Law School as the preeminent law school for the study of and specialization in the law of gender and sexuality.Interested students will find at Columbia rich and diverse course offerings, the nation’s first Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, the opportunity to publish scholarship, and receive certification in the subject.
Palm Center
The Palm Center is a research institute committed to sponsoring state-of-the-art scholarship to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial issues of the day. For the past decade, the Palm Center's research on sexual minorities in the military has been published in leading social scientific journals.
Pew Research Center - LGBT in Changing Times
The Pew Research Center’s series of reports explores attitudes about sexual orientation and identity. The series is based on several Pew Research surveys - one of LGBT adults in the U.S.; another of the American Public as a whole; and another of publics in 39 countries. It also includes an analysis of media coverage and the social-media conversation about the same-sex marriage issue.
UCLA School of Law | The Williams Institute
The Williams Institute is dedicated to conducting rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. A national think tank at UCLA Law, the Williams Institute produces high-quality research with real-world relevance and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public.

LGBTQ+ Rights This link opens in a new window
This collection charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. All titles in the LGBTQ+ Rights collection have been assigned one or more title-level subjects relating to their scope.