Latest Publications

• Internalized gay ageism, mattering, and depressive symptoms among midlife and older gay-identified men

  By Richard G. Wight, Allen J. LeBlanc, Ilan H. Meyer, Frederick A. Harig
  December 2015
  

  In this paper published in Social Science and Medicine we introduce the construct of “internalized gay ageism,” or the sense that one feels denigrated or depreciated because of aging in the context of a gay male identity, which we identify as an unexplored aspect of sexual minority stress specific to midlife and older gay-identified men. We find that internalized gay ageism can reliably be measured among these men, is positively associated with depressive symptoms net of an array of other factors that may also influence symptomatology (including depressive symptom histories), and mattering partially mediates but does not moderate its effect on depressive symptoms.

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  Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in North Dakota

  By Christy Mallory and Brad Sears
  December 2015
  

  Approximately 6,800 LGBT workers in North Dakota are not explicitly protected from discrimination under state or federal laws. Discrimination against LGBT employees has been documented in surveys, legislative testimony, the media, and in reports to community-based organizations. Many corporate employers and public opinion in Louisiana support protections for LGBT people in the workplace. If sexual orientation and gender identity were added to existing statewide non-discrimination laws, three more complaints would be filed in North Dakota each year. The cost of enforcing those complaints would most likely be negligible, and would not require additional court or administrative staff.

• HIV Criminalization in California: Penal Implications for People Living with HIV/AIDS

  By Amira Hasenbush, Ayako Miyashita, and Bianca D.M. Wilson
  December 2015
  

  Given the lack of comprehensive data on the use of HIV criminal laws in California, Williams Institute researchers obtained criminal offender record information (CORI) data from the California Department of Justice. CORI data record any contacts an individual may have with the criminal justice system, from every event beginning at arrest through sentencing, so these data provide a full chronological record of how four state laws that criminalize people living with HIV are being utilized from the time of their enactment to June 2014.