Is a Lbian, Gay or Bisexual Inty More Common Today? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS
• ARE LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN?
• IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
• BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE FAR LS LIKELY THAN GAY MEN AND LBIANS TO BE ‘OUT’ TO THE PEOPLE THEIR LIV
• AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS

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

A new study explorg the attus toward nonheterosexual men and women 23 Wtern and non-Wtern untri found lbians are more accepted than gay men around the world.

“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. ” 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.

ARE LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN?

”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. In the Uned Stat, men who are anti-gays largely direct their prejudice toward gay men, while women who are anti-gays direct their prejudice more equally toward gay men and gay women, the study found.

“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.

IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?

Rponnts Brazil, Cha, Hungary, Japan, Pe, Poland, Rsia, South Ai, South Korea and Turkey all reported more negative attus toward gay people than the U. An overwhelmg share of Ameri’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults (92%) say society has bee more acceptg of them the past and an equal number expect to grow even more acceptg the ahead. The survey fds that 12 is the median age at which lbian, gay and bisexual adults first felt they might be somethg other than heterosexual or straight.

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.

BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE FAR LS LIKELY THAN GAY MEN AND LBIANS TO BE ‘OUT’ TO THE PEOPLE THEIR LIV

Even though a rerd 51% of the public now favors allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, up om 32% 2003, that share is still far below the 93% of LGBT adults who favor same-sex marriage. The table above provis a look at key mographic characteristics of the full Pew Rearch LGBT survey sample and s three largt sub-groups—bisexuals, gay men and lbians. For example, while 77% of gay men and 71% of lbians say most or all of the important people their liv know of their sexual orientatn, jt 28% of bisexuals say the same.

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

Likewise, about half of gay men and lbians say their sexual orientatn is extremely or very important to their overall inty, pared wh jt two--ten bisexual men and women.

Gays and lbians are also more likely than bisexuals to say their sexual orientatn is a posive factor their liv, though across all three subgroups, many say is neher posive nor negative.

Bisexuals are far more likely than eher gay men or lbians to be married, part bee a large majory of those mted relatnships have partners of the oppose sex and th are able to marry legally.

Across the LGBT populatn, more say bisexual women and lbians are accepted by society than say this about gay men, bisexual men or transgenr people.

The changg attus may be due part to the fact that a growg share of all adults say they personally know someone who is gay or lbian—87% today, up om 61% 1993. A new Pew Rearch Center analysis shows that among the general public, knowg someone who is gay or lbian is lked wh greater acceptance of homosexualy and support for same-sex marriage.