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What is This?
This site provides updates to the 2006 Hein publication, Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography. Both the print and online portions of the bibliography consist of selected citations to books, articles, and government documents on LGBTQ law, plus short descriptive notes ("annotations") written by the editors. Editorial credits for the print publication appear here, and the print publication can be purchased from W.S. Hein. Editorial credits for the web publication appear here.
Update Schedule
This site will be updated with a new release approximately every 6 months. The links in the right-hand column will be updated to provide links to pdf files as well as html versions of each release. Want to know when a new release has been added? Subscribe to the site's feed! 
Searching
All words in the database are searchable, including title, author, and the text of each annotation (but not the full text of the article, as we do not store those). Use quotation marks for phrase searching, e.g., "same-sex sexual harassment".
How do I...
View all citations posted in a certain section of the bibliography?
To view all citations from, e.g., III(C), Hate Crimes, use the table of contents provided on the right-hand menu from the front page, or choose the link to "Browse by Table of Contents" on the right-hand menu of search results pages.
View all citations posted by a certain author?
To view all citations by a particular author, use the drop-down menu on the front page, or choose the "list all" link.
View the text of the articles cited/annotated?
Links to LexisNexis, Westlaw, and HeinOnline are provided as a courtesy to users who have access to these subscription databases through their educational institution or other library. Check with your library if you have questions about your access to any of the services, or for alternative sources for any of the articles cited in the bibliography. Links to free/open access sources such as SSRN are provided when available.
Suggest a book or article for inclusion in the next update?
Please email the site's editors through our contact form!
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Tags
Tags are subject keywords that are applied to each annotation by our editors. Clicking on a linked tag will generate a list of all articles in the database that have been assigned that tag. Note also that the most-frequently-assigned tags in the database appear in relative larger or smaller size in the "tag cloud" at the lower-right corner of the home page.
Syndication (aka RSS)
RSS feeds are available for the site (all articles), or for individual tags. Click on a tag for more information about feeds.