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Author Beam, Myrl, author.

Title Gay, Inc. : the nonprofitization of queer politics / Myrl Beam
Published Minneapolis : Univiversity of Minnesota Press, [2018]

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Neoliberalism, Nonprofitization, and Social Change; 2. The Work of Compassion: Institutionalizing Affective Economies of AIDS and Homelessness; 3. Community and Its Others: Safety, Space, and Nonprofitization; 4. Capital and Nonprofitization: At the Limits of "By and For"; 5. Navigating the Crisis of Neoliberalism: A Stance of Undefeated Despair; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary "Gay, Inc. investigates the massive expansion of the non-profit system since the mid-1960s, and the impact this expansion has had on queer social movements. Based on ethnography and oral histories as well as archival research, it looks at how people at four LGBT non-profits in the Midwest grapple with the contradictions between the radical imaginary of queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Beam argues that the institutional form of queer social movements informs and structures the politics that can be articulated from within them, and that the shift in focus towards marriage and formal legal equality is due, in large part, to the LGBT movement's embrace of the non-profit structure"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2018)
Subject Nonprofit organizations -- Middle West
Gay liberation movement -- Middle West
Neoliberalism -- Middle West
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Nonprofit Organizations & Charities.
Gay liberation movement
Neoliberalism
Nonprofit organizations
Middle West
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018020173
ISBN 9781452957760
1452957762
9781452957753
1452957754