Pride in our community: Reflecting on LGBTQ publications in the American Journal of Community Psychology.

In this Virtual Special Issue (VSI), we curate and discuss a set of 28 articles previously published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. The purpose of this VSI is to bring visibility to this body of scholarship in AJCP and to reflect on how the strengths of our field have been used throughout this work in pursuit of supporting LGBTQ wellbeing. In this VSI, we first discuss articles that help to set the historical background for publications in AJCP. We then discuss papers under the broad themes of HIV/AIDS, identities within ecological context, and social activism among LGBTQ communities. We then reflect on opportunities for our field to further leverage our strengths in contributing to LGBTQ scholarship. Overall, this VSI celebrates the contributions to LGBTQ research already present in AJCP, and we hope inspires future contributions to the pages of AJCP and beyond. Highlights: In this Virtual Special Issue (VSI) we curate and discuss 28 articles already published in AJCP.These articles bring visibility to LGBTQ focused scholarship in AJCP.We reflect on how the strengths of our field have and can contribute to LGBTQ scholarship.We discuss opportunities to expand our field's contributions to LGBTQ scholarship.We hope this VSI inspires application of our field's strengths to LGBTQ scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]