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Somashekhar’s Recent Publication Examines Divergent Trajectories of LGBTQ Organizational Growth Across the U.S. During the AIDS Crisis

Posted: 6/23/2023 (CSDE Research)

External Affiliate Mahesh Somashekhar recently published “Where the Great Cities Go, Do Other Cities Follow? Divergent Trajectories of LGBTQ Organizational Growth Across the United States During the AIDS Crisis” in the Journal of Homosexuality.

This study leverages nationally complete data from the U.S. Gayellow Pages, a historical listing of local LGBTQ organizations, to evaluate how the organizational response of LGBTQ communities to the AIDS crisis—arguably the most prolific era of organizational creation in LGBTQ history—differed between large hubs and other cities. Wonderful work, Dr. Somashekhar!

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