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Selling out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market » (REV)

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Authors: Alexandra Chasin
ISBN-13: 9780312214494, ISBN-10: 0312214499
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: April 2000
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Alexandra Chasin

Alexandra Chasin teaches at the University of Geneva and is co-chair of the Board of Directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Book Synopsis

A provocative expose of the mainstreaming of the gay and lesbian consumer

Out Magazine

This book is an overdue argument for why a booming gay market is not necessarily a sign of progress.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	List of Illustrations	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Introduction	1
1	Caveat Emptor, or Buyer Beware!	29
2	The Gay and Lesbian Press and the "Business of Liberation"	57
3	Advertising and the Promise of Consumption	101
4	Boycotts Will Be Boycotts	145
5	Strings Attached: How Money Moves the Movement	183
6	Steal This Show: Away from Identity and Toward Economic Justice	221
Appendix	The Boycott Literature	247
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	313
	Index	337