LGBTQ+ Centers

Books & Chapters

  • Lange, A. C., Duran, A., & Jackson, R. (2022). How whiteness werqs in lgbtq centers. In Z. Foste & T. L. Tevis (Eds.), Critical whiteness praxis in higher education: Considerations for the pursuit of racial justice on campus. Routledge.
  • Luthra, A. (2004). (Un)Straightening the Syracuse University landscape. In K. Farrell, N. Gupta, & M. Queen (Eds.), Interrupting heteronormativity: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pedagogy and responsible teaching at Syracuse University (pp. 45-53). Syracuse University Press.
  • McSpadden, E. L., Massey, L., & Almarante, I. I. (2021). Planning and building new foundations: Developing proposals for creating LGBTQI+ resources at community colleges. In D. P. Rivera, R. L. Abreu, & K. A. Gonzalez (Eds.), Affirming LGBTQ+ students in higher education (pp. 53-70). American Psychological Association.
  • Sanlo, R., Rankin, S., & Schoenberg, R. (Eds.). (2002). Our place on campus: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender services and programs in higher education. Greenwood Press.

Academic Articles

  • Fine, L. E. (2012). The context of creating space: Assessing the likelihood of college LGBT center presence. Journal of College Student Development, 53(2), 285-299. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2012.0017
  • Gilbert, C., Siepser, C., Fink, A. E., & Johnson, N. L. (2021). Why LGBTQ+ campus resource centers are essential. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8(2), 245-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000451
  • Hays, A. (2020). A question of space: Surveying student usage of LGBTQ resources in the LGBTQ student center library and the campus library. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 26(1), 110-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2018.1564336
  • Marine, S. B., & Nicolazzo, Z. (2014). Names that matter: Exploring the tensions of campus LGBTQ centers and trans* inclusion. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 7(4), 265–281. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037990
  • Mundy, D. (2018). Identity, visibility, & measurement: How university LGBTQ centers engage and advocate for today’s LGBTQ student. Journal of Public Interest Communications, 2(2), 239-261. https://doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v2.i2.p239
  • O’Reilly, K., & Mitchell, E. S. (2017). Bisexual politics and spaces: An on-campus discussion. Women’s Studies, 46(5), 495-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2017.1324446
  • Ortiz, S. M., & Mandala, C. R. (2021). “There is queer inequity, but I pick to be happy”: Racialized feeling rules and diversity regimes in university LGBTQ resource centers. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 18(2), 347-364. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X21000096
  • Self, J. M. (2015) Queering center: A critical discourse analysis of university LGBT center theoretical foundations. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 4(2). https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jctp/article/id/628/
  • Tavarez, J. (2023). “Bisexuality’s never enough…”: using composite narratives to explore bisexual students’ experiences within LGBTQ campus spaces. Journal of LGBT Youth. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2023.2262454

Dissertations & Theses

  • Bullard, M. A. (2004). Working with heterosexual allies on campus: A qualitative exploration of experiences among LGBT campus resource center directors (Publication No. 3124532) [Doctoral dissertation, Western Michigan University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 
  • Damschroeder, M. R. (2015). The essential value of LGBT resource centers (Publication No. 3746800) [Doctoral dissertation, Illinois State University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  • Hartman, B. D. II. (2014). “The moment I came in it got much easier…I should come here more”: Student experiences at three Midwestern LGBT resource centers [Doctoral dissertation, Indiana State University]. Sycamore Scholars at Indiana State University.
  • Lamb, C. M. (2021). Well decorated, but still a closet: the lived experiences of LGBT center professionals in higher education [Doctoral thesis, University of Texas at Austin]. Texas ScholarWorks. 
  • McCoy, S. D. (2018). Where is my place? Queer and transgender students of color experiences in cultural centers at a predominantly white university (Publication No. 10817628) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 
  • Oliveira, K. A. (2017). The effect of LGBT resource centers on student success & engagement [Master’s thesis, St. Cloud State University]. The Repository @ St. Cloud State.
  • Steinour, H. (2013). College campus resource centers: Trans-friendly or trans-ambivalent? (Publication No. 1529700) [Master’s thesis, George Washington University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 

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