In this brief retrospective of LGBT issues on US College Campuses: 1990–2020, the authors first review the extensive changes in the language used to ‘define’ people within these communities. Given the fluid and evolving language used in sexual and gender minority communities, it is crucial to examine how community members are named and who is centered as a result of this naming. The authors use the terms queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum to honor how individuals choose to identify themselves as opposed to placing them into socially constructed, fixed categories of sexuality and gender. Next, they explore how the climate has changed in higher education to support queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students. Finally, the authors examine the research on how queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students experience their campuses and the climate’s influence on specific outcomes. This retrospective contends that higher education scholars must continue to examine outcomes that will facilitate success for queer- and trans-spectrum student populations.

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美国大学校园 LGBT 问题回顾：1990-2020

在这篇关于美国大学校园 LGBT 问题的简短回顾中：1990-2020，作者首先回顾了用于“定义”这些社区内的人的语言的广泛变化。鉴于性少数群体和性别少数群体中使用的语言不断变化且不断演变，检查社区成员的命名方式以及这种命名导致谁以谁为中心至关重要。作者使用酷儿谱和跨谱这两个术语来尊重个人如何选择识别自己，而不是将他们置于社会建构的、固定的性行为和性别类别中。接下来，他们探索了高等教育中的气候如何变化以支持酷儿谱和跨谱学生。最后，作者研究了关于酷儿光谱和跨光谱学生如何体验他们的校园以及气候对特定结果的影响的研究。这篇回顾性文章认为，高等教育学者必须继续研究有助于同性恋和跨谱学生群体取得成功的成果。