The history of LGBTQ psychology from Stonewall to now, with Peter Hegarty, PhD
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Over the past decades, the focus of LGBTQ activism has shifted and evolved, from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s to the fight for marriage equality to the focus on transgender rights today. Peter Hegarty, PhD, discusses how research has reflected and responded to these changes, how it has helped move the needle in the fight for LGBTQ rights in the US court system, and his own research on “auditory gaydar” and continuing discrimination against LGBTQ people. Listener Survey - https://www.apa.org/podcastsu
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