Attitudes towards same-sex relationships in the US have changed radically over a relatively short period of time. After remaining fairly constant for over two decades, opinions became more favorable starting in 1992--a presidential election year in which the Democratic and Republican parties...

There are thousands of studies on the gay and lesbian population. Because of the difficulty of sampling this population, most studies have used "convenience samples" for analysis. Until recently, it was extremely rare that survey data on gays and lesbians were collected from a known sampling...

Using data from a U.S. national probability sample of self-identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults (N = 662), this paper reports population parameter estimates for a variety of demographic, psychological, and social variables. Special emphasis is given to information with relevance to...

The purpose of this article is to examine the recent developments concerning same-gender parent adoptions in the Unites States and the Netherlands, and to compare the different routes these changes have taken. The first section of the article examines the present status of the case law in both...

This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay men in the United States. Pairs of fictitious résumés were sent in response to 1,769 job postings in seven states. One résumé in each pair was randomly assigned experience in a gay campus...

This article puts comparative and constitutional law scholarship into dialogue to show how LGBT Americans are fundamentally different from queer individuals and communities elsewhere in the world. Abroad, many queer groups are advocating for “status”-based rights to vote, legal employment,...

This paper explores policy and legal debates over same-sex marriage in the United States, focusing on the indirect effects of the struggle over same-sex marriage and how these implicate the interests of women, including women in heterosexual relationships. The paper highlights the effects of the...

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...

We show that the U.S. anti-discriminatory laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) identities) spur innovation, which ultimately leads to higher firm performance. We use the Human Rights...