Homo Economics in the Closet

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

I think that Wojtek asked about empirical evidence of employment
discrimination based on sexual orientation. There's a book titled _Homo
Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life_, ed. Amy
Gluckman and Betsy Reed (NY: Routledge, 1997). Has anyone read it?

The main obstacle for rigorous and extensive empirical research about
anything related to sexuality--not just about sexual orientation +
employment discrimination--is that so much about it is in the closet. And
the production of the very need for closeting--especially so for those who
live in very socially conservative areas or work at places where homophobia
is the norm--is the central mechanism for social control of people through
sexuality.

Yoshie