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Contents:
- HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND GAY PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT THEM
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- SIX 10 AMERINS AGREE THAT GAY SEX SHOULD BE LEGAL
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO ‘DISAGREE’ WH THE GAY ‘LIFTYLE’
- HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.
HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND GAY PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT THEM
In our society today, people have many posns when to gay people. Some people offer acceptance and shelter om hatred and will work towards human rights. Others take the attu of "they're happy and not hurtg anyone," so... * agree gay *
J suggts that some men are "born nuchs, " an ancient term for beg gay, that the people are part of God's natural orr, and heterosexual marriage is not the right path for everyone.
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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
The U.S. Supreme Court's cisn on Thursday to validate an anti-sodomy law Texas is generally le wh the attus of a majory of Amerins. Gallup Polls dite that about 6 out of 10 Amerin adults approve of the ia that homosexual relatns between nsentg adults should be legal. This reprents a signifint change attus over time; as recently as 1988, a clear majory felt gay and lbian relatns should be illegal. Those most likely to ntue to believe that homosexual relatns should be outlawed clu people who attend church regularly, olr Amerins, those wh lower levels of tn, and Amerins livg the South and ral areas. * agree gay *
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”). 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.
SIX 10 AMERINS AGREE THAT GAY SEX SHOULD BE LEGAL
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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.
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. 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. 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.
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
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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).
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.
TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO ‘DISAGREE’ WH THE GAY ‘LIFTYLE’
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.
Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy. For example, those who are religly unaffiliated, sometim lled relig “non, ” (that is, those who intify as atheist, agnostic or “nothg particular”) tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy.
HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.
Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight.