What we really mean when we talk about acceptance of gay people - Los Angel Tim

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• OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE

This report scrib updat to the LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and/or tersex) Global Acceptance Inx (GAI), which seeks to measure the relative level of acceptance of LGBTI people and issu each untry for a specific time perd. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Imag)The global ph for gay rights around the world has been a long, slow stggle – some Middle Eastern and Ain untri, for example, same-sex acts today n brg the ath penalty. The study fds public opn around the world on the acceptance of gay rights is still divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment, spe substantial change laws and norms surroundg issu such as same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBTQ muni around the Photos You Should See - June 2020Pew released s survey June, celebrated as Pri Month many untri.

"Generally, more ted, younger and ls relig rponnts voiced greater acceptance of homosexualy than those who are ls ted, olr or more relig, " Pohter said an 's study found substantial chang public opn. In the Uned Stat, for example, 72% today say homosexualy should be accepted, a sharp crease om 46% 1994 and 51% 2002, Pohter other untri showg major creas public acceptance of homosexualy sce 2002:.

Courty of Pew Rearch CenterIn both Japan and Mexi, jt over half said they accepted homosexualy; 2002; nearly 7 10 rponnts today's study now India, where today a mory (37%) today say they accept homosexualy, that level of approval is a 22-pot crease.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

1994 and expand globally rearchers acknowledge the word "homosexualy" n today be nsired archaic but say the word is the most applible and translatable when askg the qutn across societi and languag, and has been ed other cross-natnal rearch, cludg the World Valu 's study also found that people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg than untri that are ls wealthy and veloped. "Country wealth, measured by GDP per pa, is a still a drivg force for attus towards acceptance of homosexualy society, wh people wealthier untri exprsg more acceptance than those ls veloped enomi, " Pohter the ConversatnSee CommentsTags: LGBT rights, civil rights, human rights, women's rights, Uned Stat, India, South Ai, South Korea, Japan, Mexi, Kenya, Bt Countri, The Racial Divi.

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. 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”). 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. 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 difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr. 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 most untri surveyed, those who have greater levels of tn are signifintly more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted society than those who have ls tn.