Amherst College has no Queer Studies department nor any official Queer Studies program, however various courses address issues of gender and sexuality each semester.

Past and current courses include: The American Right (Sociology 34), Norms/Rights/Justice (Political Science 74 / LJST 74), Political Identities (Political Science 1), Sex, Gender, and the Family (History 74 / WAGS 20), The Dao of Sex: Sexuality in China, Past and Present (WAGS 5 / Asian Lang & Civ 28), Sexuality and Culture (WAGS 31), Identity & Mobilization (Sociology 30), Willa Cather (English 75).

The Amherst College Library has a wide selection of LGBTQIA materials, which are highlighted on their GLBT Resources webpage.

There are many openly lesbian and gay faculty at Amherst. They teach in a variety of departments, such as Classics, English, History, Physics, Political Science, and WAGS. Many such faculty regularly attend Pride Alliance events with students.

Amherst students have chosen to study topics addressing LGBTQIA issues for their senior theses. Past theses include "U.S. Gay Rights Movement: A Study of Rights and Identity Approaches to Movement Organizing" (Political Science, Jay Gilliam '04), "Gay Marriage and New Imaginings of "Good Order" in Law and Culture" (Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Emily Stark '04), "Gay History of Amherst College" (Women's and Gender Studies, Eric Thalasinos '02), "Labels and Silences: Legal Construction of Gay Identity" (Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Emily Griffen '96).

Amherst College awards the Stonewall Prize annually to the student whose work offers substantial and exceptional commentary on some facet of queer, lesbian, bi-sexual, gay or trans-sexual experience. Submissions may take a number of forms including prose, poetry, fiction, drama, videos, films, art projects, photography and performance art. They may be created as part of a classroom assignment or honors project, or they may be original for this competition.

Past winners include:
2006: Max Rosen '07 ["Spy Game"]
2005: Kate Staymon-London '05 ["Dias de la Gracia (Days of Grace)"]
2004: Vanessa Eve Hettinger '04 ["Effects of Heterosexism and Gender Stereotyping in Constructive Memory"], Sophia Rochmes '04 ["Kara Walker's Silhouette Dramas"]
2003: Christian Miller '03 ["Bawds, Mollies, and Onanists: Popular Depictions of Sexual Deviance in England, 1680-1730"]
2002: Eric Thalasinos '02 ["Gay History of Amherst College"]
2001: David Azoulay '01 ["The Remaking"]