{"product_id":"gay-inc-myrl-beam-9781517901790","title":"Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere's expansion has helped--and hindered--the LGBT cause\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That is the question at the heart of this bold reassessment of the system's massive expansion since the mid-1960s. Focusing on the LGBT movement, Myrl Beam argues that the conservative turn in queer movement politics, as exemplified by the shift toward marriage and legal equality, is due mostly to the movement's embrace of the nonprofit structure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author's own extensive activist work, \u003ci\u003eGay, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects' incisive, funny, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best they can to effect change, and the flawed structures in which they participate, rail against, ignore, and make do. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a critical look at a social formation whose sanctified place in the national imagination has for too long gone unquestioned, \u003ci\u003eGay, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e marks a significant contribution to scholarship on sexuality, neoliberalism, and social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myrl Beam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517901790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517901790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Myrl Beam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992183537919,"sku":"9781517901790","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84951ee1-4203-4635-9681-1ebfb4b5ab66.jpg?v=1683314510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gay-inc-myrl-beam-9781517901790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}