CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies

The Center for LGBTQ Studies provides intellectual leadership in addressing issues that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and other sexual and gender minorities. As the first university-based LGBTQ research center in the United States, CLAGS nurtures cutting-edge scholarship, organizes events for examining and affirming LGBTQ lives, and fosters network-building among academics, artists, activists, policy makers, and community members. CLAGS maintains a broad program of public events, online projects, and fellowships that promote reflection on queer pasts, presents, and futures. The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and communities. By sponsoring [public programs](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events?department=589&audience=34 "Link to The Graduate Center, CUNY events page filtered for CLAGS events.") and conferences, offering [fellowships](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/clags-center-lgbtq-studies/fellowship-awards "Link to CLAGS fellowship and awards page.") to individual scholars, and functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change. CLAGS’s efforts to promote an academy where homophobia, sexism, racism, and classism are studied and not enacted depend on the generosity of our members. To support our work, please consider making an online donation.