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Contents:
- OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE
- ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS SOCIETY VARI WILY
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE
What is really at stake? If you’re gay, how far do beg found “morally acceptable” by two-thirds of your fellow Amerins get you? * gay culture acceptance *
Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history. A random sample of more than 1, 000 Amerins adults is asked whether “gay or lbian relatns” between nsentg adults are “morally acceptable or morally wrong. My rearch has brought me face-to-face wh the heterosexual rints of urban gay districts, or “gayborhoods, ” of big Amerin ci.
I’ve learned how fe the le is between progrs and prejudice, and how broad statistics about public opn nceal the subtle forms of discrimatn that now routely surface between gay and straight neighbors. The majory of the straight people that I’ve spoken wh durg my rearch said that they supported gay civil rights, felt a mon humany wh gay people (“we’re all jt people”) and had posive views about the tegratn of gay spac the cy (gayborhoods are “welg, ” “clive, ” and “open” environments where we n all “thrive together, ” I was told). Many of my terviewe who scribed themselv as “liberal” and “acceptg” of homosexualy remaed apathetic about the and nsequenc of social equaly.
(Some also claimed to live among a “diverse” populatn, even though their lol gayborhood lacked racial or ethnic diversy. )Some straight people saw themselv as “gay-bld, ” much like a whe person might say that she is “lorbld” toward race and racial discrimatn. But to say that beg gay is a “nonfactor” is strategic for straights; allows them to exempt themselv om polil engagement and material support.
ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS SOCIETY VARI WILY
When I asked about this trend, a straight man told me that gays and lbians should “be happy” about , rather than focg so much on prejudice, discrimatn and equaly. When I prsed straight rints to talk about ways anti-gay discrimatn persists — thgs like hate crim or hog discrimatn — I was told to “get over .
Their sentiments reflected a much larger pattern that has also been ptured by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. ” In a 2015 study that went more -pth on same-sex marriage, GLAAD also found:34% of heterosexual Amerins are unfortable attendg a same-sex weddg;43% are unfortable brgg a child to a same-sex weddg;36% percent are unfortable seeg same-sex upl hold bee straight people fd gays “morally acceptable” and even move to their neighborhoods do not mean that their prejudice is gone; jt tak subtler forms. Progrsive straights say they support “diversy” and “equaly” — but they e those terms to mean an improvement gay-straight relatns, not actual improvement the liv of LGBTQ are mistaken if we terpret — or celebrate — straight people movg to gay neighborhoods as evince that we have ma signifint stris toward equaly.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Te progrs would be thgs like employment and hog non-discrimatn laws, closg the sexual orientatn wage gap, addrsg anti-gay and anti-trans hate crim, and other prsg social problems.
Unls progrsive straights are helpg on those onts, they may be gays’ neighbors, but they aren’t their Ghaziani, an associate profsor of soclogy at the Universy of Brish Columbia, is thor of “There Go the Gayborhood? While many societi and ernments around the world have learned to accept LGBTQ+ muni, many others nmn homosexualy and em homosexual behavr illegal. This year the Pew Rearch Center released fdgs om a 2019 survey of 38, 426 people 34 untri, breakg down how populatns different cultur and mographics vary their stanc on acceptance of homosexualy.
Overall acceptance of homosexualy many untri has creased the last 15 years or so; 72 percent of Amerins say gay liftyl should be accepted pared to 49 percent 2007, and South Ai and South Korea have seen signifint hik acceptance the past 20 years. Pew reported that acceptance of gay muni vari by untry and regn terms of several key factors cludg generatn, tn, e, genr, relig affiliatn or lack thereof, polil stance and natnal wealth.