Permanent Recession: Homophobia’s Hefty Economic Pricetag

If government statistical agencies and economists saw a 1
percent drop in a country’s economic activity that lasted for a while, they
would eventually call it a recession. So in a sense, homophobia and
transphobia puts economies in a permanent recession, with economic output
below what the people of a country could produce.
– M.V. Lee Badgett- The Economic Case for LGBT Equality – Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All

Hateful East Africa: Burundi President Joins Regional Leaders to Declare War on LGBTQIA+

“In the society of humans, what is normal and what is not, is defined by not the reality or the truth whatsoever. It is defined by the society’s innate knacks and beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality