He founded the annual Lavender Languages & Linguistics conference in 1993 to coincide with the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
[5] The conference continues to meet annually, and provides a focal point for international discussion of lgbtq-related language issues worldwide.
He has done research among Native Americans of the Southwest U.S., South Africans, and Gay men in Washington, DC.
The conference was founded in 1993 by Leap to coincide with the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
In line with the trajectory of the field, more recent work has focused on how various linguistic features index different identities.