Business & Consumer Articles – The GayScribe Archive

Starting A Company Gay And Lesbian Employee Group

If you’re an employee at a company where no gay and lesbian group exists, what can you do to make a little progress in the direction of equality? The answer is simple: start a group. But the process of actually starting one is a little more complicated. We asked some experts how you can get started. Kim Mills, director of […]

Investing In Professional Theatre Productions

High-end gay and lesbian investors with a passion for the theatre and some money they can afford to lose are the perfect investors for theatrical productions. Others may be scared away by high minimum investments and high risk, according to experts. “Most investors in the theatre today are large investors and are sophisticated investors. By that I means they have […]

Investing For Gay And Lesbian Beginners

If you’re planning to start investing, you’ll likely have no shortage of advice, but we thought you might like some good advice — uniquely tailored to our unique community. We asked four of the country’s top investing experts — two who are part of the gay community and two who aren’t (that we know of) — to tell us their […]

Per Larson: Gay Money

We’re familiar with being different, but our financial situations are also different from the ones modeled by the straight community. Per Larson’s new book explains the differences and offers some advice for using the gay or lesbian difference as an advantage. The book is good (although it generalizes a lot), and I think this review captures its thesis well. By […]

Gay And Lesbian Couples: Documents That Protect You

With marriage comes a number of rights that can’t be fully simulated for gay and lesbian couples who are not allowed to legally marry. A few carefully prepared documents, however, can make a big difference in protecting a couple’s rights. While there are a number of documents that gay and lesbian couples may want to consider having prepared, two types […]