The Office on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (formerly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns Office) has served as the secretariat for the International Psychology Network for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Issues (IPsyNet) since 2005, and supports APA participation in IPsyNet with the assistance of the Office of International Affairs. In 2016, IPsyNet:
- Nearly doubled the LGBT programming at the 2016 International Congress of Psychology in Yokohama, Japan compared with 2012, hosted two planning meetings with attendees from 14 countries, and sponsored field trips to LGBT community centers in Yokohama and Tokyo.
- Developed a joint position statement on LGBTI concerns for use in a global context.
- Developed and piloted a workshop to bring psychologists together with LGBTI human rights activists to apply psychological knowledge to enhance their work and personal resiliency.
- Contributed $5,000 to the Hungarian Psychological Association to translate and adapt APA's guidelines on psychological practice with LGBT people.
- Created a page of resources following the mass shooting at the Pulse night club attack on Latin Night in Orlando in June 2016.
- Translated the public information brochures about sexual orientation and gender identity into Arabic. In 2016, there were 104,897 total downloads of the brochure on sexual orientation and 67,919 of the one on gender identity.