ABSTRACT
The 2016 US Presidential election and its related campaigns were historically significant and unusual for a multitude of reasons. In the period of time after the election, it became clear that making sense of the election and its effect on the nation would be a formidable, multifaceted, yet vital challenge. First, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community remains an understudied group across diverse fields of inquiry including the social sciences and health. Second, the LGBTQ community remains a vulnerable, and often marginalized, group in American society. Given that the LGBTQ community in the US is understudied and underserved, vulnerable and marginalized, and that the social and civic gains the community has made are limited and uncertain, the 2016 US Presidential election and investigate the early impact of the 2016 US Presidential election on the LGBTQ community in the US Scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives have contributed their insights to this volume.
