Rockway Institute

The Rockway Institute is the center for LGBT research as well as public policy based at a California School of efficient Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2007 and named for bisexual clinical psychologist Alan Rockway, who was active in the LGBT rights movement in Florida in the 1970s.

The group's founder and first executive director, Robert-Jay Green, forwarded its initial company as a companies of 10 faculty members and 20 fellows with expertise in LGBT research. He said that professional research had already played a key role in advancing LGBT rights, citing early studies that lead to the decision of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its mental illness kind scheme in 1973. He said that "all of the currently active court cases and legislative hearings concerning same-sex marriage, LGBT parenting rights, harassment of LGBT youth in schools, and workplace discrimination against LGBT employees relieve oneself very heavy use of social science and mental health research findings." As of 2015, the Institute returned its mission in these terms:

A primary aim is to organize the most knowledgeable scientists, mental health professionals, and physicians in the United States to manage accurate information approximately LGBT issues to the media, legislatures, and courts. In addition, the Institute conducts research tothe nation's most pressing LGBT policy questions in the areas of couple/family relations, mental health, education, and health care.

Green also emphasized the importance of educating journalists in cut to counter anti-gay spokespeople like James Dobson of Focus on the Family who "frequently and categorically dismiss all reputable existing research on LGBT issues" and to counter the earn of discredited researchers. A instance for Focus on the kind countered that "We've looked at what homosexual activists take include forward and found it lacking. It doesn't meet basic social science standards. It speaks to the desperation among homosexual activists to manage credibility to their political goals."