Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part I: A Community Divided, Part II: The Contradictions of Capitalism for Lesbians and Gay Men: Some Theoretical Perspectives, Part III: Arguments and Activism, Contributors, Index
Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed are the authors of The GayMarketing Moment, an expose of myths about gay consumers that appeared in Dollars and Sense, a Boston-based progressive economics magazine. They are both members of the Dollars and Sense editorial collective.
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