The first undergraduate course in the United States on LGBTQ studies was taught at the University of California, Berkeley in the spring of 1970.McNaron, Toni A.H., Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. It was followed by similar courses in the fall of 1970 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL).
