Research grants lgbtq

Lesbian Health Fund

Our Impact

Groundbreaking Research

Research is underway on the following issues:

  • Reproductive technologies and access for racialized sexual and gender minority people
  • The health of sexual and gender minority people of color living with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Self-compassion interventions for stress in sexual minority women
  • A longitudinal pilot learn on psychosocial factors and depressive symptoms among gender minority adolescents


Educating Providers and Scientists

Important results from LHF-funded studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at professional conferences on topics including:

  • Alternative insemination methods
  • Education of primary protect providers on lesbian health and cultural sensitivity
  • Health risks and barriers to health care
  • Health care access for older, rural lesbians
  • Breast cancer risks and treatment
  • Lesbian local violence
  • Mental health of queer woman mothers and children of lesbian parents
  • Osteoporosis and bone density loss
  • Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
  • Substance use issues


Launching Further Studies and Leveraging Millions of Dollars

LHF grants have been crucial to prop

Grant Program Areas

  • AIDS United

    The National AIDS Fund (now AIDS United) was founded in 1988 to reduce the incidence and impact of HIV/AIDS by promoting governance and generating resources for effective community responses to the epidemic. Through our network of Community Partnerships and targeted Special Initiatives, AIDS United promotes collaborative local planning and provides strategic grants and technical support to more than 400 direct service organizations annually.

    http://www.aidsunited.org/strategic-grantmaking

  • ALERT

    Alert is an independent fund that project budget available to activist immature people through quickly ask (ask by e-mail, treatment within 2 weeks, sum up to 250 euros) , applications ( before application in treatment within 2 months, amount up to 1500 euros ) and awards ( 750, 3 times a year, chosen by Alert Directors ). It aims to achieve an equal distribution of knowledge, capital, authority, and a better environment. Alert provides global subsidies to single and small-scale projects for and by fresh people with progressive ideas and initiatives. The board of Alert consists of new people between 18 and 32 years. They deal with the applica

    The following list was developed initially by OutHistory intern Moira Armstrong (Rutgers University-Newark) in 2024. It was updated most recently in May 2025. For corrections, updates, and additions, please write to outhistory@gmail.com.

    Fellowships

    Center for Lesbian and Same-sex attracted Studies Fellowship Award

    Description: An award to be given annually for a graduate student, an academic, or an independent scholar for work on a dissertation, a first publication manuscript, or a second book manuscript. Intended to give the scholar the most help possible in furthering their work, the fellowship will be qualified to be used for research, travel, or writing support.

    Eligibility: Open to intellectuals contributing to the field of LGBTQ studies

    Amount: $2,000

    Deadline: Deadline unclear for current application cycle

    Center for Woman loving woman And Gay Studies Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship

    Description: The CLAGS Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship assists scholars and professionals whose investigate on the LGBTQ life can benefit from access to CLAGS’s resources and its location in midtown Manhattan at the CUNY Graduate Center.

    Eligibility: The Fellowship Program is open to all disciplines

    Open Gate Foundation for LGBTQ+ Explore Grant

    The Open Gate is a nonprofit organization formed in 1987 to provide funding for activities at Harvard University that boon LGBTQ+ students, faculty, staff, and alums. We support a wide variety of requests, all in furtherance of scholarship, understanding, or celebration, in the fields of sexual orientation and gender culture and expression.

    The Unlock Gate's goals are:

    • to encourage scholarship, investigate, and educational activities, including the funding of research projects and conferences
    • to help student, faculty and employee groups that further a climate of open discussion on LGBTQ+ issues
    • to recognize contributions through awards, memorials, cultural events, and related activities
    • to promote broader understanding and discourse on campus by funding the invitation of outside speakers, performers, and panels

    While we examine any and all requests, here are some guidelines to consider:

    $100 to $1,500 for:

    • Undergraduate research expenses
    • Student groups, both for their operating expenses and special projects
    • Performances, generally by students or nonprofessionals affiliate
      research grants lgbtq

      This section contains opportunities relating to LGBTQ-specific research. However, your research may align with many other funding opportunities - be sure to do a comprehensive search, using multiple keywords relating to your topic/discipline, in the grants databases.

      American Psychological Association (APA) - "Roy Scrivner Research Miniature Grant Award: This program seeks to encourage the research of LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy through its aid of promising youthful investigators whose graduate research is oriented toward issues in this general area."

      Association for Queer Anthropology - Small move grants to join annual conference.

      CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies is based at The Graduate Center and suggestions Fellowships & Awards for graduate students, including a dissertation prize, undergraduate and graduate analyze awards.

      Gay and Lesbian Review Artist's Grant - Up to $7500 for LGBTQ projects, with a creative or academic flair.

      The Committee on Lesbian, Same-sex attracted, Bisexual and Trans person History - Founded in 1979, the Committee offers a variety of prizes and awards for work in the field of LGBTQ history, most notable t