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
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Elephant in the Room: The True Scale of Suicide in South East Asia
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Art of Authenticity: Indian Painter and Photographer Shares His Coming Out Journey and Artistic Inspiration
In the Christian West, homosexuality traditionally has been
viewed as a sin. This breeds a kind of religious homophobia
that cannot be dealt with by simple worldly tools. The
Vatican’s homophobia goes to such an extent that, as pointed
out earlier, it once stated that the world had to be saved from
homosexuality, just as its rain forests needed to be saved:
failure to save the world from either the one or the other
would lead to its destruction. A sin must be atoned for, or
expiated, without which the sinner remains guilty for life, and
upon death goes to hell. This is how the culture of the West
becomes a ‘guilt culture’. The orthodox are shocked by the fact
that the world has become so ‘degenerate’ today that it argues
for same-sex marriage and upholds homosexuality even in
its most perverse forms. – R. Raj Rao
Slow Start: Japan’s Watered-down LGBTQ Understanding Bill a Step in the Right Direction
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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