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Gay inc is a beacon of persuasive clarity outlining the emotionally compelling but politically compromising role of nonprofit organizations in lgbtq life with nuanced ethnographic research myrl beam provokes us to see the conflicts between mission and fundraising between participants and donors that shape our deepest commitments to . An essential read for anyone who is trying to figure out how social change works gay inc helps us understand queer and trans resistance in depth bringing new insight into social movement debates about the role of nonprofits using grounded histories of resistance and conflict within queer politics dean spade seattle university school of law. Based on oral histories as well as archival research and drawing on the authors own extensive activist workgay incpresents 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. gay inc is a beacon of persuasive clarity outlining the emotionally compelling but politically compromising role of nonprofit organizations in lgbtq life. Gay inc the nonprofitization of queer politicsby myrl beamminneapolis university of minnesota press 2018 pp 236 10000 cloth 2500 paper