Stonewall at 50: How public opn on gay rights moved so far so fast - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• VALIDATN OF THE ATTU SLE TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR OLD AGE A COLOMBIAN SAMPLE
• AMERINS’ VIEWS FLIPPED ON GAY RIGHTS. HOW DID MDS CHANGE SO QUICKLY?
• PUBLIC ATTUS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY RIGHTS ACROSS TIME AND COUNTRI
• GENR INTIFITN AND ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE: GENR AND SEXUALY DIFFERENC AND SIARI
• MORAL STANCE TOWARDS GAY OR LBIAN RELATNS THE UNED STAT 2022
• AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS
• ATTUS TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN MORATE HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS’ SUBJECTIVE STRS RPONSE TO WNSG HOMONEGATIVY

VALIDATN OF THE ATTU SLE TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR OLD AGE A COLOMBIAN SAMPLE

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.

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.

AMERINS’ VIEWS FLIPPED ON GAY RIGHTS. HOW DID MDS CHANGE SO QUICKLY?

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). However, there is an stment that over some of the limatns and that is also the only stment that evaluat attus towards LGBT olr adults, the Attu Sle to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Old Age (EAFV-LGBT; Meiros et al., 2019) EAFV-LGBT (Meiros et al., 2019) is a sle that was veloped based on the Theory of Attu (Rodrigu et al., 1999) sce has been proven that attus are predictors of behavrs (Ajzen, 2012).

Therefore, the ma aim of the prent study was to translate and exame the psychometric properti of the Attu Sle to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Old Age (EAFV-LGBT; Meiros et al., 2019) for men and women a Colombian sample. DiscsnThe ma goal of this study was to exame the psychometric properti of the Colombian versn of the Attu Sle to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Old Age (EAFV-LGBT; Meiros et al., 2019), sle that was veloped based on the Theory of Attu (Rodrigu et al., 1999). Likewise, prev studi have nclud that personaly tras such as low openns to experience, low extroversn, and ls rdialy are related to homophobia (Allen & Walter, 2018; Cullen et al., 2002; Lal & Garg, 2020; Lgiardi et al., 2016; Marto, 2019).

PUBLIC ATTUS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY RIGHTS ACROSS TIME AND COUNTRI

They grew up believg homosexualy was a s, and that the “gay agenda” was an attack on their, six years ago, their son Peter — their youngt child who loved theater and his church youth group — returned home to Ellitt Cy, Md., om his hman year of llege and me out to his fay as asked her son not to tell anyone else, and drove herself to a mall parkg lot to cry.

GENR INTIFITN AND ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE: GENR AND SEXUALY DIFFERENC AND SIARI

Even among the most ristant relig group, whe evangelil Prottants like the Augte fay, support for same-sex marriage has grown om 11 percent 2004 to 29 percent 2019, acrdg to years after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Manhattan, spurrg days of rts that would bee a talyst for the gay rights movement, the leap public opn has been followed by leaps on the ground, even as work remas. A rerd number of LGBT ndidat have been elected to Congrs, Colorado elected the untry’s first openly gay ernor, Chigo has a lbian mayor and the first openly gay Democratic ndidate is nng for while ’s clear that the gay rights movement managed to change people’s mds faster than any other civil rights movement memory, ’s ls clear why.

MORAL STANCE TOWARDS GAY OR LBIAN RELATNS THE UNED STAT 2022

In a study published earlier this year, Mahzar Banaji, a psychology profsor at Harvard Universy, vtigated patterns of long-term chang attus toward six social groups — the elrly, the disabled, the overweight, black people, people wh darker sk ton and gay people — over a . “Nobody expects implic attus to change that rapidly over such a brief perd of time, ” Banaji relatively recent acceleratn me after s of 1978, almost a after Stonewall, gay rights activist Harvey Milk gave an impassned plea: “Every gay person mt e out.

” In the s that followed, more and more Amerins started g out to their loved on, some galvanized by the pa of the AIDS, the late 1990s and early 2000s, the growg visibily of gay people popular culture began to trigger a major shift attus, social scientists said. Most of the characters and the most visible lears at the helm of the movement were whe people wh the power and privilege to help LGBT rights reach the there was somethg different about the gay and lbian muny, pared wh other mory groups. “My hband and I looked at each other and were like, ‘Wow, we need to do some work here, ’ ” Teri, durg Peter’s junr year of llege, his parents went to a Gay Christian Network nference, where they worshiped alongsi hundreds of gay, lbian and transgenr Christians.

'Love was place'If the relatnships gay and lbian people have wh those close to them were so ccial buildg support for the gay rights movement, why haven’t those nnectns been as stmental changg attus about Ain Amerins, the elrly or overweight people? It’s hard for bias-challengg, face-to-face ntact to take place when Ain Amerins and the elrly, for example, are not well tegrated to neighborhoods or social spac due to both prent-day and historic gay rights movement was also helped along by the exposure Amerins received through lears their own muni. Cheney, who both spoke favor of gay rights after their children me out as gay, helped build support among Republins, said polil scientist Melissa Michelson of Menlo College, who -wrote a book wh Brian Harrison of the Universy of Mnota about their fdgs.

AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS

Among those who changed their opn on same-sex marriage after Print Barack Obama announced his support, blacks were more likely than wh to shift toward supportg for much of the Uned Stat, the tippg pot the gay rights movement was somethg more obv: marriage equaly the U. A 2015 study found that rints of stat wh a same-sex marriage policy had the greatt rctn of anti-gay attus, when pared wh rints of stat where same-sex marriage was stutn of marriage put a stamp of legimacy on same-sex upl that allowed straight on to see them as a fay un, jt like theirs, said Andrew Flor of Amerin Universy, a -thor of the study.

The Tmp admistratn has rolled back a number of transgenr protectns at the feral level and embolned a nservative base phg for relig liberty — a backlash that Hair-Markel says parallels the rise of anti-gay movements the 1970s, such as sger Ana Bryant’s anti-gay “Save Our Children” mpaign Florida, and the Briggs Iniative, a ballot measure California that would have mandated the firg of any teacher who was gay or pro-gay for the gay and lbian muny, “rapid progrs a short perd of time don’t mean victory, ” Hair-Markel said.

Fanng themselv while stg on floral-prted uch, they went around sharg their stori to a was the mother whose father, grandfather and uncl were all nservative pastors, and whose dghter recently me out as gay, though none of the extend relativ know.

ATTUS TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN MORATE HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS’ SUBJECTIVE STRS RPONSE TO WNSG HOMONEGATIVY

For example, Great Bra, the percent sayg that sexual relatns between two adults of the same genr were “always wrong” fell om 64% 1987 to 22% 2012 (Park & Rhead 2013) and the Uned Stat approval of gay marriage climbed om 11% 1988 to 48% 2012 (Smh & Son 2013).