USDA Paid to Study 'Queer Farmers', 'Latinx' Masculinity, and Worse on Taxpayer Dime

USDA Paid to Study 'Queer Farmers', 'Latinx' Masculinity, and Worse on Taxpayer Dime

Credit: Acroterion via Wikimedia Commons U.S. taxpayers have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in recent years to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for research on LGBT issues, the kind of funding now under scrutiny by the Trump administration. The research relies on conducting interviews – in one case for $373 per Zoom call – to explore a researcher’s hypothesis of widespread discrimination. For instance, one taxpayer-funded research gr…