An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods provides suggestive evidence, however, that the wage...

Twenty years ago, on early morning of 7 October 1998, a mountain bike rider cycling through the prairies surrounding Laramie, Wyoming, casually bumped into the body of a 21-year-old boy. His hands were tied to a fence with an iron thread and his face had been so badly disfigured that he...