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SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred and queer people (LGBTQ) have been publicly advotg for equal rights and rponsibili wh U.S. society sce the late 1960’s. The Uned Stat has ma nsirable progrs s acceptance of sexual diversy, as has racial and relig diversy. As of June 2015, all stat the U.S. perm… * gay cultural values *
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred and queer people (LGBTQ) have been publicly advotg for equal rights and rponsibili wh U. Perm gay marriage, although cultural acceptance of gay marriage vari wily om regn to regn, and person to person. 8 ln gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals live the Uned Stat and the 2000 US Cens reports at least 601, 209 gay and lbian fai/ hoeholds.
Internatnal stunts g om some untri (such as Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Spa, and South Ai where same-sex upl have the right to marry and genr rol may be more fluid) may fd US attus or stanc of homophobia and heterosexism puzzlg and “behd the tim.
” LGBTQ dividuals still face numero challeng and stanc of heterosexism and homophobia their daily liv. S., the ncept of transgenr inty is different om the ncepts of gay, lbian, and bisexual inty. This analysis foc on whether people around the world thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society or not.
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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. 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.