The LGBTQ Study Group holds regular sessions during each annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. Normally there is a business meeting beginning at 12:15 pm on the Friday of the AMS meeting, followed immediately in recent years by an invited speaker or another hour-long program dealing with scholarly and musical issues of interest. The group also holds a no-host party on the Saturday night of the meeting. These events are listed in the AMS program booklet for the meetings.

Recent speakers and their topics have been:

• 2004 Jessie Ann Owens and Peter J.Burkholder, "Lesbian, Gay, Musicologist: Some Personal Reflections"
• 2003 Sherrie Tucker, "What's Sexuality Got to Do with It? (And Other Queer Questions in American Music Scholarship)"
• 2002 Mitchell Morris leading a panel discussion about GLBTQ choruses
• 2001 Sophie Fuller, "A Queerable History? Women Musicians in Fin-de-siècle Britain".
• 2000 Ivan Raykoff, "On the Borders of Camp: Transgendered Pop Stars in Germany, Turkey and Israel"; and Shanna Lorenz, "Revisiting Tango’s Homoeroticism in the Films Happy Together and The Tango Lesson";
• 1999 Howard Pollack, "Some Thoughts on Gay Receptivity to Copland’s Music";
• 1998 Ellen Harris, "Handel as Orpheus II: The Cultural Context of a Literary Reading";
• 1997 Sue-Ellen Case, "Queer Performance";

Future meetings will be announced as the dates become nearer. The 2005 AMS meeting will be at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, October 27-30 2005; the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA November 2-5 2006.