How to Unrstand Gay and Lbian People: LGBT+ Allyship

Contents:

• AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
• LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH AND FAY ACCEPTANCE
• HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
• DO LBIANS FD MORE ACCEPTANCE SOCIETY THAN GAY MEN?
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS

At the same time, only about one--five LGBT adults (19%) say there is “a lot” of social acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people this untry today, and 53% say there is a lot of discrimatn agast the groups.

LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS

This sectn will look pth at how LGBT adults view var Amerin stutns (cludg the two polil parti), how they perceive and experience discrimatn, and how levels of social acceptance differ across groups of LGBT adults (gay men, lbians, bisexual men and bisexual women). Gay men and lbians are much more optimistic than bisexuals about societal acceptance creasg the future: 71% of gay men and 76% of lbians, pared wh 58% of bisexuals, say society will be a lot more acceptg of the LGBT populatn 10 years om now. There are no signifint differenc among gay men, lbians and bisexuals terms of the level of discrimatn they perceive agast gays and lbians (55% of gay men, 61% of lbians and 51% of bisexuals say there is a lot of discrimatn).

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH AND FAY ACCEPTANCE

There are other typ of cints that gay men and lbians are equally likely to have experienced: beg rejected by a iend or fay member; beg ma to feel unwele at a place of worship or relig anizatn; receivg poor treatment a rtrant, hotel or other place of bs; and beg treated unfairly by an employer. Amerins' satisfactn wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people stood out the 2022 poll bee reached the hight level the natn has seen sce Gallup started trackg the trend 2001, though the peak is statistilly siar to 2016 levels.

Poll rponnts also reported a greater level of satisfactn wh acceptance of gay and lbian people than any of the 20 other issu Gallup tracked this while satisfactn on many of the other issu creased this year, the numbers on gay and lbian dividuals grew substantially: In 2022, 62% of survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gays and lbians the natn, up om 55% 2021 and 56% 2020.

HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ 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. As the Supreme Court readi s long-awaed lg on same-sex marriage, two Pew Rearch Center surveys this sprg — one of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr adults and the other of the Amerin public — found a mon thread: that society as a whole has bee more acceptg of gays and lbians. The number of Amerins who had a favorable view of gay men stands at 55%, an 18 percentage pot crease pared to a earlier; 58% had a favorable opn of lbians, a 19 percentage pot crease over the same time span.

While the survey of the general public found that, overall, the percentage of Amerins who say homosexualy should be accepted by society creased om 47% to 60% over the last , opns vary wily based on relig affiliatn and practic. When the nearly one-third of Amerins who say homosexualy should be disuraged are asked an open-end qutn why they feel this way, by far the most mon reason — given by 52% — is that homosexualy nflicts wh their relig or moral beliefs. “We found that gay men are disliked more than lbian women every untry we tted, ” acrdg to the study, which was nducted by three New York Universy psychologists and published the December issue of the journal Social Psychology and Personaly mori face pervasive discrimatn and hostily globally, wh same-sex sexual activy still illegal approximately 70 untri.

DO LBIANS FD MORE ACCEPTANCE SOCIETY THAN GAY MEN?

” The nverse is also largely te: For stance Ameri, llege stunts who endorsed “tradnal genr arrangements” were more likely to report negative attus toward gays, lbians and Lra Bettsoli, the study's lead thor, said she and her lleagu were surprised "at the nsistency of the relatnship between genr norm endorsement and sexual prejudice.

""Even though there were some non-Wtern untri that did not nform to the pattern, the majory of untri did, " she said a, untri cludg Cha and India, the survey found that strong genr norms are actually associated wh greater tolerance of homosexualy — that is, people wh the strongt beliefs how men and women should behave were more likely to tolerate homosexualy, the oppose of the Wt, cludg the Ameris and Wtern report speculat that some Eastern untri, “both genr norms and nonheterosexualy are nsired ‘Wtern’ (or, perhaps, palist) ncepts, and those who are pro-Wtern are more likely to feel favorable toward both. ”In all 23 untri studied, the report found "gay men are rated more negatively than lbian women, ” and that trend was almost entirely driven by the views of men, except Poland, Hungary and Rsia, where women also assigned gay men high negative ratgs.

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

“In other words, harborg prejudicial attus toward sexual mori is part of the social nstctn of what means to ‘be a man’” many Wtern untri, acrdg to the January 2019, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s first gui to issu specific to men and boys warned that “tradnal masculy iology” — what some characterized as “toxic masculy” — “has been shown to lim mal’ psychologil velopment, nstra their behavr, rult genr role stra and genr role nflict and negatively fluence mental health and physil health” and lked to both homophobia and snapshotThe study also shed light on some ntours of global homophobia. ”It also placed Amerin attus toward lbian, gay and bisexual people the ntext of other untri around the world: Argenta, Atralia, Belgium, Canada, Great Bra, Spa and Swen all have more posive attus toward sexual mori than do Amerins.

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.