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Contents:

• 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
• “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
• TODAY IS A GAY DAY!
• FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
• TODAY, I FEEL GAY…
• TODAY, I FEEL GAY
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I FEEL GAY.”
• 'TODAY I FEEL GAY... TODAY I FEEL DISABLED' - FIFA PRINT INFANTO LIVERS EXTRAORDARY & NTROVERSIAL SPEECH AHEAD OF WORLD CUP OPENER
• ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY’: GIANNI INFANTO HS OUT AT WTERN CRICISM OF WORLD CUP 2022 QATAR
• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GIANNI INFANTO: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER'
• TODAY I FEEL GAY

'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’

This analysis foc on whether people around the world thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society or not. Homosexualy should be accepted by society OR Homosexualy should not be accepted by society.

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. As was 2013, when the qutn was last asked, attus on the acceptance of homosexualy are shaped by the untry which people live.

Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

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In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007.

Many of the untri surveyed 2002 and 2019 have seen a double-dig crease acceptance of homosexualy. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan. In both untri, jt over half said they accepted homosexualy 2002, but now closer to seven--ten say this.

In Kenya, only 1 100 said homosexualy should be accepted 2002, pared wh 14% who say this now. (For more on acceptance of homosexualy over time among all the untri surveyed, see Appendix A.

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In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

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Polil iology also plays a role acceptance of homosexualy. In many untri, those on the polil right are ls acceptg of homosexualy than those on the left.

And supporters of several right-wg populist parti Europe are also ls likely to see homosexualy as acceptable.

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In general, people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg of homosexualy than are those ls wealthy and veloped enomi.

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For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.

By ntrast, Nigeria, Kenya and Ukrae, where per-pa GDP is unr $10, 000, ls than two--ten say that homosexualy should be accepted by society. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. Varied levels of acceptance for homosexualy across globe.

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The 2019 survey shows that while majori 16 of the 34 untri surveyed say homosexualy should be accepted by society, global divis rema. Whereas 94% of those surveyed Swen say homosexualy should be accepted, only 7% of people Nigeria say the same.

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Across the 34 untri surveyed, a median of 52% agree that homosexualy should be accepted wh 38% sayg that should be disuraged. On a regnal basis, acceptance of homosexualy is hight Wtern Europe and North Ameri.

Central and Eastern Europeans, however, are more divid on the subject, wh a median of 46% who say homosexualy should be accepted and 44% sayg should not be.

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But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.

More than three-quarters of those surveyed Atralia (81%) say homosexualy should be accepted, as do 73% of Filipos. In the three Lat Amerin untri surveyed, strong majori say they accept homosexualy society.

Pew Rearch Center has been gatherg data on acceptance of homosexualy the U. Sce 1994, and there has been a relatively steady crease the share who say that homosexualy should be accepted by society sce 2000. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

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While acceptance has creased over the past two s, the partisan divi on homosexualy the U. More than eight--ten Democrats and Democratic-leang pennts (85%) say homosexualy should be accepted, but only 58% of Republins and Republin leaners say the same.

(For more on Amerin views of homosexualy, LGBT issu and same-sex marriage, see Pew Rearch Center’s topic page here; U.

In 22 of 34 untri surveyed, younger adults are signifintly more likely than their olr unterparts to say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

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This difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr.

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This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. However, for all 12 untri surveyed where there was signifint difference, women were more likely to approve of homosexualy than men. South Korea shows the largt divi, wh 51% of women and 37% of men sayg homosexualy should be accepted by society.

In most untri surveyed, those who have greater levels of tn are signifintly more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted society than those who have ls tn. For example, Greece, 72% of those wh a postsendary tn or more say homosexualy is acceptable, pared wh 42% of those wh a sendary tn or ls who say this. In a siar number of untri, those who earn more money than the untry’s natnal median e also are more likely to say they accept homosexualy society than those who earn ls.

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In Israel, for stance, 52% of higher e earners say homosexualy is acceptable society vers only three--ten of lower e earners who say the same. In many of the untri where there are measurements of iology on a left-right sle, those on the left tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy than those on the iologil right.

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).

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In a siar ve, those who support right-wg populist parti Europe, many of which are seen by LGBT groups as a threat to their rights, are ls supportive of homosexualy society. In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

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Siar differenc appear neighborg Hungary, where the lg Fisz party, led by Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, also has shown hostily to gay rights.

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). Relign, both as relat to relative importance people’s liv and actual relig affiliatn, also plays a large role perceptns of the acceptabily of homosexualy many societi across the globe. In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.