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We live in a different world compared to the America we knew before 2015, when the U.S. achieved marriage equality. But politics and the pandemic are contributing big changes to the way LGBTQ Americans live. 

To help LGBTQ Americans navigate those changes, we reached out to experts for insights. See what they had to say below.

The past 2 years have been a period of mourning, anger, fear, and exhaustion for Asian Americans: 16% of Asian American adults were victims of hate crimes in 2021, up from 12.5% in 2020; 31% worry “all the time” or “often” about being victimized because of their race; and 

On April 28, 2022, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced Sociology Professors Jennifer Lee and Thomas DiPrete as a newly elected members.