Stigma and Discrimatn Affects Gay and Bisexual Men's Health | CDC

Contents:

• HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE
• PUBLIC ATTUS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY RIGHTS ACROSS TIME AND COUNTRI
• GENR NORMS AFFECT ATTUS TOWARDS GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN GLOBALLY
• AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS
• GENR INTIFITN AND ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE: GENR AND SEXUALY DIFFERENC AND SIARI
• RADILLY NORMAL: HOW GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CHANGED THE MDS OF THEIR OPPONENTS
• LET THEM BE, NOT ADOPT: GENERAL ATTUS TOWARDS GAYS AND LBIANS AND SPECIFIC ATTUS TOWARDS ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX COUPL 22 EUROPEAN COUNTRI

HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a eper look this morng at one of the most profound shifts public attus ever rerd - 's the public view of people who are gay and much of this natn's history, of urse, the vast majory of people disapproved of homosexualy so strongly that anyone who me out was guaranteed to face difficulty and even risked danger.

And then, what ltle data we have on trans rights also suggts that there's been a sharp crease appreciatn for the rights of trans I thk one of the thgs that has been shown by the Marriage Equaly Movement is that if you're a gay or lbian, you have more rights than you ed to have.

It nsirs 1) what the trends have been and how chang vary across untri, 2) cross-natnal differenc support of homosexualy and gay rights and what untry-level factors expla the cross-natnal variatn, 3) mographic rrelat of support for homosexualy/gay rights, 4) the nnectn of hort differenc to trends, and 5) the bed role of dividual and untry-level variabl on shapg attus towards homosexualy and gay rights.

PUBLIC ATTUS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY RIGHTS ACROSS TIME AND COUNTRI

Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life.

The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny. To better unrstand what shap the attus and prejudic, Maria Lra Bettsoli, Alexandra Supp, and Jamie Napier (all New York Universy—Abu Dhabi) tted how beliefs about genr norms (expectatns of society for how men and women act and look) and people's attus towards gay men and women relate across the globe.

GENR NORMS AFFECT ATTUS TOWARDS GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN GLOBALLY

Ls than 50 percent said they should be hired as doctors or clergy, and jt over a quarter said they should be hired as elementary school, nearly all Amerins, 93 percent, believe lbian and gay people should have equal accs to jobs — wh 91 percent sayg they should be hired as doctors and 81 percent sayg they should be hired as elementary school teachers.

To tt this assumptn, we nducted a study aimed at examg the relatnship between genr intifitn and attus toward lbians and gay men among people of different genrs and sexual Iology and Attus toward Gay PeopleGenr iology, broad terms, is ually unrstood as an dividual’s ternalizatn of cultural belief systems and attus toward members of a particular genr group. Prev rults revealed that endorsement of TMI was associated wh negative attus toward women (Corprew III et al., 2014; Gage &Lease, 2018; Hyatt et al., 2017; Lease et al., 2020; Stanr et al., 2018) and gay people (Barron et al., 2008; Keiller, 2010; McDermott et al., 2014; Parrott et al., 2002) scholars have suggted that tradnal genr iologi might expla genr differenc attus toward gay men and lbian women. This difference is likely due to straight people exprsg more negative attus than sexual mory dividuals toward sexual together, studi on tradnal genr iologi may expla the differenc attus toward gay people that exist between men and women, and between straight and sexual mory dividuals.

Sce people of diverse genrs and sexuali support different genr iologi, one might assume that the groups there will be a different relatnship between genr intifitn and attus toward gay particular, sce TMI impli stricter adherence to differenc between men and women than TFI, we hypothized that stronger genr intifitn among men would be associated wh more negative attus toward lbians and gay men than among women (hypothis 1).

AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS

In addn, sce straight dividuals were found to endorse tradnal genr iologi more than sexual mory dividuals, we hypothized that stronger genr intifitn would be associated wh more negative attus toward lbians and gay men among straight people than among sexual mory dividuals (hypothis 2) wh stronger genr intifitn attribute more stereotypil characteristics to genr -group members, give a more posive asssment of people who nform to genr stereotyp, and a more negative asssment of people who vlate them.

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

Sce, acrdg to tradnal genr iologi, men should emphasize their differenc om women more than women do om men, we hypothized that stronger genr intifitn would be associated wh more negative attus toward gay men than toward lbians (hypothis 3) Context of the StudyMost of the studi on the relatnship between tradnal genr iologi, genr inty and attus toward gay people have been nducted the USA and some European untri that are ually characterized by relatively high levels of genr equaly and posive attus toward gay people. In our opn, featur of the social ntext would strengthen the lk between genr intifitn and attus toward lbians and gay featur of the social ntext dite that, on the one hand, tradnal genr iologi are wispread Rsia, and, on the other, there are no social norms that lim the exprsn of negative attus toward lbians and gay men.

RADILLY NORMAL: HOW GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CHANGED THE MDS OF THEIR OPPONENTS

In particular, several studi have revealed that bisexual people tend to be exclud by both straight and gay dividuals; they were stereotyped as ls tstworthy, ls cled toward monogamo relatnships and not as able to mata a long-term relatnship (Burke &LaFrance, 2016; Zivony &Lobel, 2014).

LET THEM BE, NOT ADOPT: GENERAL ATTUS TOWARDS GAYS AND LBIANS AND SPECIFIC ATTUS TOWARDS ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX COUPL 22 EUROPEAN COUNTRI

Table 1 Dcriptive statistics and Pearson rrelatnsFull size tableAttus toward Gay Men and Lbian WomenTo measure attus toward gay men and lbian women, we ed qutnnair measurg the perceived abnormaly of non-straight sexual orientatn through negative emotns toward gay people and support for their rights.