Gary J. Gates (HNZ 2000)

2008 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award

Bio

Gary J. Gates has collected data on LGBT populations that have impacted everything from pop culture to public policy. Statistics from his research have appeared on “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and “The Real O’Neals” and Siri even cites him when asked about gay and lesbian populations.

As a Ph.D. student in CMU’s H. John Heinz III College School of Public Policy, Gates wrote a dissertation that drew from U.S. Census data to analyze characteristics of same-sex couples and later co-authored “The Gay and Lesbian Atlas.” He received an Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from CMU in 2008 in recognition of these accomplishments.