TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badgett,M.V.Lee
TI  - The economic case for LGBT equality: why fair and equal treatment benefits us all 
T2  - Queer action/queer ideas
SN  - 9780807035603
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Homophobia
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Transphobia
KW  - Gay rights
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Transaction costs
KW  - Opportunity costs
KW  - LGBTQ+
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Stigma and schools -- Employment : funnels, fences, and walls -- When stigma makes you sick -- Making the business case for LGBT equality -- The cost to economies : adding it up -- A way forward -- Strategies for realizing the gains from LGBT (and LGBTI) equality
N2  - "Badgett offers some new ways of thinking to convert the many people who use their power to hurt LGBT people, whether in passing discriminatory laws, firing them from jobs, harassing them in school, beating them on the streets, failing to protect them from beatings, kicking them out of families, or depriving them of appropriate health care-in short, in excluding them from the core institutions that make it possible to live a good life. Understanding the economic cost of that homophobia and transphobia gives activists, businesses, development agencies, and policymakers a new tool that can help change lives"--; Homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country's GDP. Badgett uses recent research and statistics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments affect both the US and global economies. She offers some new ways of thinking to convert the many people who use their power to hurt LGBT people, by excluding them from the core institutions that make it possible to live a good life. Understanding the economic cost of that homophobia and transphobia gives activists, businesses, development agencies, and policymakers a new tool that can help change lives. -- adapted from jacket and publisher info
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