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Williams in the News

“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” and “Boy Erased” Are Putting an Important Spotlight on Conversion Therapy
LGBTQ advocates may sue South Carolina over anti-gay foster parent prohibition
Kids With Two Moms Grow Up To Be Just As Happy, Study Says
A Long Time to Deliberate: Kavanaugh’s Decidedly Conservative Court
Why you should care that the Trump administration deleted online information about sex discrimination
Longest Study Yet Finds Adult Kids of Lesbian Moms Are Doing Fine
Researchers find no difference between kids raised by two moms and kids raised by mom and dad

Latest Publications

Impact of Strict Voter ID Laws on Transgender Voters in 2018 General Election

Jody L. Herman, Taylor N.T. Brown
August 2018

Strict voter ID laws may present a barrier to voting for 78,000 transgender people who do not have identification that reflects their correct gender.
How many same-sex couples in the U.S. are raising children?

Shoshana K. Goldberg, Kerith J. Conron
July 2018

There were more than 700,000 cohabiting same-sex couples in the U.S. in 2016. An estimated 114,000 were raising children.
Mental Health of Young Adults with Lesbian Parents

Nanette Gartrell, Henny Bos, Audrey Koh
July 2018

A study finds that 25-year-olds raised by lesbian parents do as well on multiple measures of psychological health as their peers.

STATE RESOURCE MAP

Click on each state below to find state-specific research on issues such as LGBT demographics, marriage, parenting, and workplace issues — including state-level data and maps from Census 2010.

United States Census Snapshot: 2010

Press Advisory/FAQ: Same-sex couples in Census 2010 & Census Snapshot: 2010 Methodology