Zachary Quinto voices call for end to LGBT discrimination
Marking Human Rights Day 2015 today, the United Nations and Zachary Quinto have released a landmark video outlining the shocking economic and social cost of LGBT discrimination around the world. This is the first time the UN have focused on this economic issue and the short video will be shown live today from UN HQ in New York City to key global delegates.
While the video starts by pointing out the all-too-familiar social and emotional costs of LGBT discrimination, it then focuses on the “colossal” cost homophobia and transphobia can have on the economy, “from a shrunken labour force and a flight of talent, to lost productivity.”
“According to a recent world bank pilot study, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi and trans poeple, could be costing an economy the size of India’s up to $32 billion a year,” Quinto explains.
For more sobering statistics like that, check out the video below:
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