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Contents:

• 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
• INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV
• INDIA HAS 2.5M GAYS, ERNMENT TELLS SUPREME URT
• GOVT. SUBMS DATA ON GAY POPULATN
• GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

In November, she helped anize New Delhi’s first reer fair meant for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or LGBTQ muny.

“We are talented enough to get a job but we are lookg for a safe and clive place, ” she is part of a growg number of activists advotg for India’s lbian and gay muny, which has grown bolr the past year. ”“In the first six months after the Supreme Court lg, we handled about 64 crisis suatns, ” says Vivek Anand, 58-year-old chief executive officer of The Humsafar Tst, a non-prof that has been advotg for gay rights for 25 ced an cint om earlier this year when a gay man om Nagpur, a small town central India, was acsted by a group of men one eveng on the street, and asked to perform sexual acts for them. Still, most participants, like Arp Mehrotra, a 35-year-old gay profsnal Noida, said the event was a big step forward for India.

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual.

INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV

Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or intify as openly gay. 5 percent of the populatn was heterosexual, while the remar of the populatn reported, intified as homosexual or asexual.

INDIA HAS 2.5M GAYS, ERNMENT TELLS SUPREME URT

More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. Of those that do intify as LGBTQ, over 50 percent of them are bisexual and 24 percent are gay, while 11 percent are lbian. 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.

GOVT. SUBMS DATA ON GAY POPULATN

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.

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There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan. 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”).

In general, people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg of homosexualy than are those ls wealthy and veloped enomi. 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. The 2019 survey shows that while majori 16 of the 34 untri surveyed say homosexualy should be accepted by society, global divis rema. Across the 34 untri surveyed, a median of 52% agree that homosexualy should be accepted wh 38% sayg that should be disuraged.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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