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Gary Gates, Senior Research Fellow at the Williams Institute of Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA
November 15, 2011 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
The UNC-CH Department of Sociology is cosponsoring with the UNC-CH Program in Sexuality Studies an upcoming installment in a series of monthly events throughout this academic year involving leading experts on the issue of LGBT rights and, specifically, marriage equality. This event will be a talk by Gary Gates, Senior Research Fellow at the Williams Institute of Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA; he is the nation’s preeminent expert on gay and lesbian demographics and coauthor of THE GAY AND LESBIAN ATLAS (Urban Institute Press, 2004).
Gates’s talk is scheduled for November 15 at 5:30 pm, in Fred Brooks 009, Sitterson Hall. His presentation will draw on the fascinating demographic data he has extrapolated from the 2010 US Census, including information specific to the state of North Carolina.
Gates was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered on September 27 (http://www.npr.org/2011/09/27/140854973/census-releases-data-on-same-sex-couples). Also, see his opinion piece published in The Washington Post in April, “Gay People Count, So Why Not Count Them Correctly?” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gay-people-count-so-why-not-count-them-correctly/2011/04/07/AFDg9K4C_story.html).
This series began on September 8 with a panel discussion, “Equality Matters: Same-Sex Marriage and the NC Constitution,” which featured three UNC Law School professors (see the article in the DTH that ran the following day): http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/09/4e6996876cd97); this event also resulted in a New York Times article on the NC constitutional amendment. On October 13 there was a talk by economist Lee Badgett, who is the award-winning author of WHEN GAY PEOPLE GET MARRIED: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOCIETIES LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (NYU Press, 2009).