MV Lee Badgett

MV Lee Badgett is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All (Beacon Press, 2020).

Twitter : @LeeBadgett

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9 July 2020

Politics & economy

“As we marshal resources and new strategies to fight COVID-19, we must do the same to fight homophobia and transphobia”

MV Lee Badgett: While 29 countries now allow same-sex couples to marry, every country is still a developing country when it comes to the full inclusion of LGBT [...]Read the full article

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