The percentage of U.S. adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr has creased to 7.1%. This is driven by high LGBT self-intifitn, particularly as bisexual, among Generatn Z adults.
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An overwhelmg share of Ameri’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults (92%) say society has bee more acceptg of them the past * pew lgbt *
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. 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.
A majory of Amerins a new survey believe Black people, women, as well as gay and lbian people will ga fluence durg Joe Bin’s princy. * pew lgbt *
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.
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.
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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.
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). 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. 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.
Public opn polls and surveys about LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) topics. * pew lgbt *
This report is based primarily on a Pew Rearch Center survey of the LGBT populatn nducted April 11-29, 2013, among a natnally reprentative sample of 1, 197 self-intified lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults 18 years of age or olr. Some of this difference may be attributable to changg social norms, but some is attributable to the fact that the experienc of young adults who have not yet intified as beg gay or lbian but will do so later life nnot be ptured this survey. As for genr patterns, the survey fds that lbians are more likely than gay men to be a mted relatnship (66% vers 40%); likewise, bisexual women are much more likely than bisexual men to be one of the relatnships (68% vers 40%).
A Pew Rearch Center survey fds lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults are optimistic about creasg social acceptance. Yet many still report feelg stigmatized by fay, iends, employers and their place of worship. * pew lgbt *
When asked an open-end qutn to name the natnal public figur most rponsible for advancg LGBT rights, Print Barack Obama, who announced last year that he had changed his md and supports gay marriage, tops the list along wh edian and talk show host Ellen DeGener, who me out as a lbian 1997 and has been a leadg advote for the LGBT populatn ever sce then. Pew Rearch surveys of the general public show that while societal views about homosexualy have shifted dramatilly over the past , highly relig Amerins rema more likely than others to believe that homosexualy should be disuraged rather than accepted by society. In the Pew Rearch Center survey, rponnts were asked whether they nsired themselv to be transgenr a separate seri of qutns om the qutn about whether they nsired themselv to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or heterosexual (see Appendix 1 for more tails).
And jt as gay men, lbians, and bisexuals perceive ls monaly wh transgenr people than wh each other, transgenr adults may appear not to perceive a great al of monaly wh lbians, gay men, and bisexuals.