LGBT Studies at Yale University

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (LGBTS) at Yale promotes innovative interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching on the historical and contemporary experience of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people. It also fosters critical analysis of queer and normative sexualities, the formation of sexual and gender minorities, and the role of sexuality in culture and politics across the world. It has a national and international reputation for its faculty, lecturers, fellowships, prizes, and symposia.

As an interdisciplinary committee, LGBTS organizes and co-sponsors scholarly lectures, conferences, film screenings, and other events; provides research grants to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates; co-sponsors the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Colloquium; and works closely with Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) to coordinate LGBTS course offerings. From 2001-2006, a generous gift from a donor allowed LGBTS to establish and oversee the Larry Kramer Initiative, which hosted a wide array of public programs on LGBT issues and strengthened LGBTS at Yale. Today LGBTS has a 14-member committee, a faculty chair, and a full-time Program Manager.

To receive timely e-mail announcements of our events, grant competitions, and other LGBTS matters, please send a request to be put on our announcement list to the LGBTS Program Manager, John-Albert Moseley.  Write "Announcement list" in the subject header.  We promise not to flood your inbox. 

Why Homosexuality?

Religion, Globalization, and the Anglican Schism

A conference organized by LGBT Studies at Yale

Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

9 am - 5 pm

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Justice Edwin Cameron will deliver two Brudner Prize Lectures:

LGBTI Rights Around the World: Toward a Framework for Global Action

Wednesday, October 28, 2009,

5 pm, Yale Law School, room 127

Africa, AIDS, and Homophobia: The Other Epidemic

Thursday, October 29,

6 pm, at the Yale Club of New York

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Congratulations to the winners of this summer's Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies and to this year's co-winners of the GALA Senior Essay Prize in LGBT Studies !

LGBT Studies welcomed alumni/ae returning to Yale for the first LGBT reunion, April 24-26, 2009.  For more information on the program, organized by GALA and the AYA, click here.