LGBTQ+ Research: Case Studies

Using a case study of legal efforts in California from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, this Article recovers the role of marriage in early LGBT parenting litigation on behalf of unmarried parents. It shows how that litigation reshaped norms governing marriage and parenthood.

This case study of sodomy laws illustrates how the mere existence of an "unenforced" criminal law creates a criminal class whose members are treated as felons, even though they have been convicted of no crime.

Looks at the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the E.N.O. versus L.L.M. case that upholds probate court's exercise of equity power in granting visitation between a child and a lesbian de facto parent. Court's definition of de facto parent; Two principles that constrained the probate court's authority to intervene in the natural parent-child relationship.

The article offers a case study that discussed about a growing number of divisive political issues and corporate activities. It mentions about Supreme Court's landmark decision to met with pockets of resistance in states with conservative legislatures and also highlights the concept of equal rights for LGBTQ people.

This case study is based on the issues brought up by a research participant who requested a copy of their interview data, given for a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender hate crime project. The co-authors of this study are the two stakeholders involved in this exchange. James, the researcher, was approached by Chloe, the participant, who wished to use the interview recording in combination with a meeting recording that they had carried out secretly, for the purposes of an art project.

This article discusses results from a qualitative case study that examines the experiences of lesbian,
gay, and bisexual (LGB) service members in higher education. The purpose of the study is to
examine the institutional supports and constraints experienced by LGB-identified, active duty,
military service members during their undergraduate enrollment.

This hermeneutic phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of eight openly gay undergraduate men involved in elected student government. While all of the men in this study identified with coming out, there were differences in their experiences with being out. As themes illuminated visibility, internalized homophobia, expectations of working harder than their peers, and a sentiment that they 'just so happen to be gay,' this study affirms the idea that there is not one single story of what it means to be gay or elected (or gay and elected).

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of one gay male former law enforcement officer and how (non)disclosure in the masculinized industry context of law enforcement influenced and constrained his work experiences.

There is no gene for being gay, and though genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation and same-sex behavior, it’s small, complex, and anything but deterministic. That’s the conclusion of a paper by an international team of researchers, co-led by Benjamin Neale of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, published today in the journal Science.

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify the possible influence of cultural lag
on the workplace engagement of LGBT employees. Ogburn’s cultural lag theory served
as the conceptual framework.

In light of the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States in June 2015, this case study provides a historical examination of one of the first corporate engagements with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) publics. In this case, readers are presented with a historical case of crisis communication and LGBT publics, with examples that demonstrate how an organization can turn a moment of crisis and organizational mishandling to become a corporate leader in LGBT relations.

Features several case studies on students in a university setting.

Departing from a critical review of transgender research in the social sciences, the
humanities and in studies of work and organization, this chapter therefore discusses
how transgender may be embodied in studies of gender, work and organization,