M. V. Lee Badgett and Carlos A. Ball discuss the future of LGBT equality, capitalism, and the broader struggle for human rights with Michael Bronski. In doing so, they explore the historical role that LGBT activism aimed at corporate America has played in advancing equality both within their walls and in the public sphere and how our economy loses when we miss out on the full benefit of LGBT people’s potential contributions.

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M. V. Lee Badgett: The Economic Case for LGBT Equality (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080703...)

Carlos A. Ball: The Queering of Corporate America (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080702...) and From the Closet to the Courtroom (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080700...)
Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States (adult, https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080704... and young readers, https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080705...) and “You Can Tell Just by Looking," (https://bookshop.org/a/3319/978080704... the speakers' books

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

M. V. Lee Badgett is the author of The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All. She is a professor of economics and the former director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law & Public Policy (UCLA School of Law), where she was a cofounder and the first research director.

Carlos A. Ball is the author of several books including The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from LGBTQ Adversary to Ally and From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. He is Distinguished Professor of Law and the Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar at Rutgers University.

Michael Bronski has been involved in gay liberation as a political organizer, writer, and editor for more than four decades. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A Queer History of the United States (adult and young readers editions) and “You Can Tell Just by Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People. Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.