Amerins today have very different views about LGBT issu than they did 1977, when Gallup first polled about gays and lbians.
Contents:
- GALLUP FIRST POLLED ON GAY ISSU '77. WHAT HAS CHANGED?
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
- IF GALLUP IS RIGHT, THERE ARE 178 GAY PRO SPORTS TEAM ATHLET
- MR. JEREMY MICHAEL GAY, ATTORNEY
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
- GALLUP: RERD SUPPORT FOR GAY RELATNS AND POLYGAMY; PLURALY STILL OPPOSE ABORTN
GALLUP FIRST POLLED ON GAY ISSU '77. WHAT HAS CHANGED?
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14% believed gay people should be allowed to adopt 1977. Amerins were once spl on whether gay relatns should be legal. -- Gallup first polled Amerins about gays and lbians 1977 -- when the U.
Gay rights movement was still s fancy, and openly gay polician Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors. Gay rights activists at the time enjoyed momentum om the 1969 rts at Stonewall Inn New York Cy -- an uprisg agast police raids on gay bars, the 50th anniversary of which the LGBT muny celebrat this month -- and had not yet endured the AIDS crisis that would later kill many LGBT people.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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But while the movement was young and hopeful at the time, Amerins held very different views about gay people than they do today. In 1977, relatively few Amerins believed that a person was born gay (13%), but this figure has grown to 49% 2019.
Today, 32% say that people bee gay as a rult of their environment or upbrgg, pared wh a majory (56%) holdg that view 1977. Amerins were evenly spl on the qutn of whether gay and lbian relatns between nsentg adults should be legal (43%) or illegal (43%).
STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
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Texas cisn that prohibed stat om outlawg them -- the vast majory, 83%, say gay relatns should be legal. Adults 1977 (14%) believed that gay people should be allowed to adopt a child.
This figure is more than five tim higher 2019, wh 75% supportg gay adoptn rights.
Today, nearly all Amerins (93%) say gay people should have equal employment opportuni, whereas a small majory (56%) felt this way 1977, when was a hot issue state and lol polics.
IF GALLUP IS RIGHT, THERE ARE 178 GAY PRO SPORTS TEAM ATHLET
Signifintly fewer adults than a year ago say gay or lbian relatns are morally acceptable, and more adults approve of the ath penalty, acrdg to new Gallup pollg. * michael gallup gay *
That year, the anti-gay Save Our Children mpaign was lnched by sger Ana Bryant, who ed her celebry to advote agast lol ordanc banng discrimatn agast gay people employment.
In the same 1977 poll, Gallup asked Amerins more specifilly if gays and lbians should be hired for certa occupatns. Most said gay people should be hired as salpeople (68%) and about half said gay people should be allowed to the armed forc (51%).
But mori of Amerins felt that gay people should be hired as doctors (44%) or clergy (36%), and jt 27% said gay people should be hired as elementary school teachers. Today, eight 10 or more Amerins support hirg gay people for each of the jobs -- wh the exceptn of clergy, which 72% say is a profsn gay people should be nsired for. Over this time as well, and Amerins' views on the issu have unrgone some of the most dramatic shifts public opn -- cludg gay marriage, which hardly even registered as a goal for gay rights activists of the 1970s.
MR. JEREMY MICHAEL GAY, ATTORNEY
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NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
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Supreme Court is preparg to hear s of employment discrimatn and will ci whether a feral civil rights law appli to gay and transgenr people. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.
Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Free agent forward Rudy Gay, who was recently released by the Thunr, is drawg tert om several potential playoff teams, acrdg to Stto.
GALLUP: RERD SUPPORT FOR GAY RELATNS AND POLYGAMY; PLURALY STILL OPPOSE ABORTN
The Warrrs, Lakers, Mavericks, Bulls and Pelins have all registered tert Gay, per Stto. Gay will be 37 by the time next season starts and while his role has dimished each of the past three seasons, he’s still a seasoned veteran wh 17 years of NBA experience. Gay averaged 5.
Each team lked to Gay has at least one roster spot open and uld offer him a one-year, veteran’s mimum which, for a player wh 10+ years of experience, is worth roughly $3.