Inc gay
In Our Own Voices, Inc.
Serving the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted & Transgender People of Color, Our Friends and Families.
Our mission is to work for and assure the physical, mental, spiritual, political, cultural and economic survival and growth of the Lesbian, Gay, Fluid and Transgender people of color communities.
Upcoming Community Events
Men’s Empowerment Group
Thursday, July 24,
pm - pm
Lark Street Albany, NY
Life After 50 - In-person
Monday, July 28,
pm - pm
Hybrid and In-person at Lark Avenue in Albany, NY
Men’s Empowerment Group
Thursday, July 31,
pm - pm
Lark Street Albany, NY
Sexversations For Him: Douche or Diet
Thursday, August 14,
pm - pm
Lark Road, Albany, NY
Contribute to In Our Own Voices
Your donation will support annual programming and events that help inspire, educate, commemorate and celebrate our diverse community. Together we can strengthen the voices of the Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, & Transgender POC community.
Gay Inc
Last week, it seemed that the San Francisco LGBT Pride Committee was planning this years march with an huge set of ovaries. As the Bay Area Correspondent wrote, "Pride&#;s electoral college, which is made up of former grand marshals, has selected Army Intimate First Class Bradley Manning as its choice for grand marshal. Manning has admitted to leaking , classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks and is facing court-martial.
Private Manning, in federal custody, could no more have actually attended the march than he could have planned a trip to check in Julian Assange. The Bradley Manning Support Network announced that Daniel Ellsberg, the famed whistle-blower who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, would attend in Mannings absence.
It was a delicious setup, with the potential to lead to the most raucous, politically charged pride event since the Christopher Street Liberation Morning of marked the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
But a male lover movement born in a riot cant tolerate disagree anymore. Within a afternoon, San Francisco&#;s Pride
Gay, Inc.
A bold and provocative look at how the charity sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
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 mids. 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.
Based on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author’s own extensive activist work, Gay, Inc. presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between revolutionary queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects’ incisive, entertaining, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best
VCU news
By Brian McNeill
The conservative turn in queer movement politics is due mostly to the movement’s embrace of the charity structure, argues a new guide by Myrl Beam, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences.
In “Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics,” Beam relies on oral histories, archival research and his hold activist work to explore how LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago are grappling with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations.
Beam discussed his new book, which was published by the University of Minnesota Press, with VCU News.
How would you describe the central argument of “Gay, Inc.”?
At its core, this book tries to explain a major switch in queer politics over the last half century. Though it often comes as a surprise to my students, marriage hasn’t always been the be-all and end-all of the LGBT movement. In the ’60s and ’70s, the L