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Market Intelligence · Institute for Queer Economics Pride sponsorships are being cut, DEI budgets are shrinking and LGBTQ+ founders still raise under 1% of venture capital. Yet on 14 October 2026 a virtual LGBTQ+ therapy provider closed a $7m seed round led by a mainstream impact fund. This is why health-tech is the exception, what the investors are actually buying, and what could break it. The deal in numbers Allswell is a San Francisco company that delivers virtual therapy,

For thirty years after decriminalisation was first demanded, the Indian state policed queer love through the criminal code. Now that Section 377 is gone, the discrimination survives in a quieter ledger: the tax return. A detailed analysis of India's "gay tax", the court cases challenging it, and what the fiscal exclusion of queer families costs, in dignity and in rupees. In 1991, a mother in South Delhi learnt that her son was gay. Her first reaction, she later told an activi

Why the deepest queer political divide is not left against right but the individual against the collective, and why that reframing may be the most diplomatic move we have. At LevelUp in Chicago this summer, I kept returning to a single diagram. It redraws the political spectrum most of us carry in our heads. In place of the familiar line, progressives to the left, conservatives to the right, everyone else scattered between, it proposes a deeper axis. At one pole sit authorita

Our economies need to thrive, and that can only happen when we reach and empower those who need it most. Slavery was brought to an end in the British empire after a law was passed in 1834. Women in the USA started making their way into paid work after homes were electrified in the 1950s. Although many groups in our society now have more equal opportunities to take responsibility for their lives and improve their circumstances, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) in

Jyoti Puri’s Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India is an ambitious study of sexuality, law, and state power in contemporary India. Its central achievement is to establish a larger account of how sexuality helps constitute the state itself. If you’re interested in these topics, I highly recommend it. Here’s why. Puri’s strongest claim is not that the Indian state regulates sexuality, but that sexual regulation helps produce the state as c