ABSTRACT
A quick list of the countries covered by chapters of this book looks like the travel itinerary of a prosperous businessperson: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Jamaica, and Singapore. In an era of heightened international attention to the imagined spending power of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) people,1 a global gay “movement” might just as easily refer to the movement of capital across borders to seek out profi table gay consumers as to a global political movement seeking legal equality for GLB citizens. In this era of the pink pound/euro/dollar and apparent gay advantage, in what sense can we meaningfully identify a global gay gap?
