(a)  to serve the allied disciplinary and professional groups represented by anthropology, art, history, the law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology, as well as research in the biological sciences, medicine, psychiatry, and psychology;

(b)  to serve as a forum for essentialist, social constructionist, and postmodern views of homosexuality;

(c)  to serve as the scholarly source of materials for research and educational programs dealing with homosexuality, in particularly gay, lesbian, and queer studies programs;

(d)  to serve as a vehicle for the international dissemination of research on homosexuality by scholars throughout the world; and