Discrimination against sexual minorities in Kenya is costing the country up to $1.3 billion (Over Sh100 billion) annually, a report by a coalition of global businesses said, attributing the losses to missed tourism earnings, poor health and less employment of LGBT+ people.
The report by Open For Business - an alliance of big companies including tech companies Google and Microsoft and Deutsche Bank - estimated anti-gay attitudes were shaving off up to 1.7 percent of Kenya’s annual gross domestic product (GDP).
“A lot of the conversations on LGBT inclusion across the world are based on people’s perceptions, rather than facts,” Yvonne Muthoni, Kenya programme director at Open For Business, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.