The United Nations Human Rights office today launched powerful video highlighting the intense discrimination the LGBT community faces on a regular basis.
The video released by Free & Equal, the United Nations campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality is narrated by movie star Zachary Quinto and exposes just how much LGBT exclusion really costs.
States Free & Equal,
Do you know how much discrimination really costs?
Rates of poverty, homelessness, depression and suicide have been found to be far higher among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people than in the general population. But it’s not just LGBT people who pay the price. We all do. Every LGBT child thrown out of home and forced to miss out on education is a loss for society. Every LGBT worker denied their rights is a lost opportunity to build a fairer and more productive economy.
These losses are entirely self-inflicted. With different laws and policies in place and a different mind-set, we could and would achieve a more free and equal world – that is more prosperous too!
Watch the video above.