As North Carolina considers a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions, the UNC Program on Sexuality Studies’ “Equality Matters” Lecture Series is bringing scholars to Carolina to share their research into the legal, economic, and social implications of same-sex unions.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
“Courting Disaster? Same-Sex Marriage and the Overthrow of Traditional Marriage”
Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
“Structural Stigma and Mental Health Disparities in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations”
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler is Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Students were invited to stay for conversation and dinner with Dr. Hatzenbuehler after the talk. Read about it in the DTH.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
“The Trials of (Same-sex) Marriage: Why History Matters”
Nancy F. Cott is Jonathan Trumball Professor of American History at Harvard University. Her visit to UNC coincided with the Ninth Circuit Court’s ruling on California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that amended the California Constitution to restrict marriage to couples of the opposite sex. Professor Cott explained the role of the state in determining the changing interpretation of the meaning of marriage in American history, and her own work on Perry v. Schwarzenneger, a federal lawsuit that sought to strike down Proposition 8. Read about it in the DTH.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
“The LGBT Community Counts: What Census 2010 Tells Us about Same-Sex Unions and LGBT Demographics”
Gary Gates, demographer-in-residence at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law, explained what the latest census reveals about same-sex unions in the United States.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
“When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage”
M. V. Lee Badgett is Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is also the research Director of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law & Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She shared what she learned while working on her award-winning book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage (NYU Press, 2010), looking at questions such as:
- Will gay people change marriage?
- Will marriage change gay people?
- Are we moving too fast?
Thursday, September 8, 2011
“Marriage and the North Carolina Constitution”
This important and timely SXST event, a panel discussion with UNC Law Professors Maxine Eichner, Holning Lau and Barbara Fedders, led to an article in the New York Times. Holning Lau, one of our panelists, is quoted. The idea for the article was suggested by a Chapel Hill resident who attended the event.