Since its inception in 1993, the Committee on (now Institute for) LGBT Studies has become a leading center for the promotion and dissemination of research on LGBTQ people and communities. In the past 14 years, the Committee has presented the work of numerous visiting scholars, artists and activists, and organized dozens of seminars, workshops, conferences and symposia.

LGBT Studies funds Research Clusters that bring faculty, students, and community members together to investigate a common question or issue, in ways that enhance individuals' research agendas, build local and national alliances and generate public events at the University of Arizona and in Tucson.

University of Arizona faculty present their work locally in our Brown Bag Lecture Series.

The Sex and Scholarship series, begun in 1996, presented six annual symposia on diverse topics ranging from Mexican & Chicano Masculinities to the Future of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The multi-year Sex, Race & Globalization project built on this foundation to explore the imbrication of sexuality, gender and race with economic, political and informational processes across local, regional, national and transnational scales through seminars, conferences and reading groups in collaboration with a series of Rockefeller Humanities Residency Fellows.

Our current Borders, Migration and Globalization initiative examines how immigration, borders and sexualities are mutually transforming one another within the context of economic, political and informational globalization.