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LGBTQ Studies: Statistics & Data

This guide provides access to multidisciplinary resources in LGBTQ Studies.

Databases and Statistics Portals

LGBTdata.com

- Run by Dr. Randall Sell of Drexl University, LGBTdata.com is a "no-cost, open-access clearinghouse for the collection of sexual orientation & gender identity data and measures".

Population Research in Sexual Minority Health (PRISM) Data Archive (ICPSR)

- ICPSR maintains and provides access to Social Science data . Since the 1960's ICPSR has been establishing special topics data archives, and in 2010 the PRISM data archive was established. 

Data sets and surveys related to human sexuality (Kinsey Institute)

- Originally called the Institute for Sex Research when it was founded in 1947, this institute run by the University of Indaina was renamed the the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research in 1981.

Books and Reports in the Library

LGBTQ stats : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers / David Deschamps author; Bennett L. Singer, author; Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of afterword. New York : The New Press, 2017. DOUGLASS HQ76.3.U5D47 2017

Unequal opportunity : health disparities affecting gay and bisexual men in the United States / Ronald O. Valdiserri, Contributor; Richard J Wolitski, Contributor; Ron Stall, Contributor. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008. ALEXANDER Stacks RA564.9.H65U94 2008 and Online through Oxford Scholarship Online

The gay & lesbian atlas / Gary J. Gates & Jason Ost. Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2004. ALEXANDER, DOUGLASS and CAMDEN REF HQ76.3.U5G355 2004

Same-sex partners : the demography of sexual orientation / Amanda K. Baumle, D'Lane R. Compton, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Albany : SUNY Press, c2009. DOUGLASS HQ76.35.U6B38 2009 and Online through ProQuest Ebook Central 

Gay & lesbian stats : a pocket guide of facts and figures / edited by Bennet L. Singer and David Deschamps ; with an introduction by Gerry E. Studds and a preface by Stephanie Sanders. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1994. ALEXANDER and DOUGLASS REF HQ76.3.U5S59 1994

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