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Institute for Queer Economics

Studying the queer economic pulse of our time: enterprise, markets, policy shifts, and LGBTQIA+ economic life across the world.

Services

Queering the Capital

We Do:

Homocapitalism Podcast

Conversations on capitalism, markets, civil society, queer identity, entrepreneurship, family independence, and LGBTQIA+ freedom.

Queer Enterprise Stories

Founder profiles, queer-owned business case studies, startup stories, and analysis of how LGBTQIA+ people build, innovate, and create value.

Queer Market & Policy Watch

Analysis of queer market trends, business news, global reports, legal shifts, and institutional changes affecting LGBTQIA+ economic life.

Queer markets. Queer enterprise. Queer freedom.

About

ABOUT

Embrace & Enterpise your uniqueness!

The Institute for Queer Economics studies the economic life of LGBTQIA+ people across markets, businesses, institutions, families, digital platforms, and global policy systems.

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We analyse queer entrepreneurship, market trends, business innovation, economic independence, legal and family constraints, and the changing conditions of LGBTQIA+ freedom around the world. Our work brings together research, commentary, podcast conversations, founder stories, business analysis, and reviews of major global reports.

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We study queer people not only through exclusion and discrimination, but also through agency, enterprise, mobility, creativity, and institution-building. LGBTQIA+ people are workers, founders, consumers, migrants, investors, creators, family builders, and participants in global markets. Their economic lives deserve serious analysis.

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Our approach is evidence-led, internationally minded, and intellectually pluralist. We examine how law, markets, firms, families, civil society, technology, and global institutions shape queer possibility. Our aim is to make queer economic life visible, serious, and analytically useful: showing how LGBTQIA+ people work, trade, build, consume, migrate, organise, and pursue freedom in a changing world.

Testimonials

Qoutes

On average, gay men, bisexual men, and bisexual women faced earnings penalties of 7.1%, 9.2%, and 4.5%, respectively. By contrast, lesbian women were found to earn a 7.1% premium.

The Economics of Being LGBT.

The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations

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