Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unns | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• GAY OR EUROPEAN LYRICS
• GAY OR EUROPEAN
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
• POLAND STILL WORST UNTRY TO BE GAY THE EU: REPORT
• 10 GAYT COUNTRI EUROPE
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• MAJORY WORLDWI NOW SAY THEIR AREA IS GOOD FOR GAY PEOPLE

GAY OR EUROPEAN LYRICS

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. As was 2013, when the qutn was last asked, attus on the acceptance of homosexualy are shaped by the untry which people live.

Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai. In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan.

GAY OR EUROPEAN

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). In general, people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg of homosexualy than are those ls wealthy and veloped enomi.

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. By ntrast, Nigeria, Kenya and Ukrae, where per-pa GDP is unr $10, 000, ls than two--ten say that homosexualy should be accepted by society.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.

The 2019 survey shows that while majori 16 of the 34 untri surveyed say homosexualy should be accepted by society, global divis rema. Across the 34 untri surveyed, a median of 52% agree that homosexualy should be accepted wh 38% sayg that should be disuraged. Central and Eastern Europeans, however, are more divid on the subject, wh a median of 46% who say homosexualy should be accepted and 44% sayg should not be.

9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view. Sce 1994, and there has been a relatively steady crease the share who say that homosexualy should be accepted by society sce 2000. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

More than eight--ten Democrats and Democratic-leang pennts (85%) say homosexualy should be accepted, but only 58% of Republins and Republin leaners say the same. (For more on Amerin views of homosexualy, LGBT issu and same-sex marriage, see Pew Rearch Center’s topic page here; U. In 22 of 34 untri surveyed, younger adults are signifintly more likely than their olr unterparts to say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

This difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. However, for all 12 untri surveyed where there was signifint difference, women were more likely to approve of homosexualy than men.

POLAND STILL WORST UNTRY TO BE GAY THE EU: REPORT

In most untri surveyed, those who have greater levels of tn are signifintly more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted society than those who have ls tn. For example, Greece, 72% of those wh a postsendary tn or more say homosexualy is acceptable, pared wh 42% of those wh a sendary tn or ls who say this.

In a siar number of untri, those who earn more money than the untry’s natnal median e also are more likely to say they accept homosexualy society than those who earn ls. In Israel, for stance, 52% of higher e earners say homosexualy is acceptable society vers only three--ten of lower e earners who say the same. In many of the untri where there are measurements of iology on a left-right sle, those on the left tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy than those on the iologil right.

10 GAYT COUNTRI EUROPE

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In a siar ve, those who support right-wg populist parti Europe, many of which are seen by LGBT groups as a threat to their rights, are ls supportive of homosexualy society. In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.

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. Siar differenc appear neighborg Hungary, where the lg Fisz party, led by Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, also has shown hostily to gay rights. 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).

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

Relign, both as relat to relative importance people’s liv and actual relig affiliatn, also plays a large role perceptns of the acceptabily of homosexualy many societi across the globe. In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy. For example, those who are religly unaffiliated, sometim lled relig “non, ” (that is, those who intify as atheist, agnostic or “nothg particular”) tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy. Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated.

But even among Christians, Catholics are more likely to accept homosexualy than Prottants and evangelils many untri wh enough adherents for analysis.

MAJORY WORLDWI NOW SAY THEIR AREA IS GOOD FOR GAY PEOPLE

Koreans who are religly unaffiliated are about twice as likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society (60%) as those who are Christian (24%) or Buddhist (31%). In the few untri surveyed wh Mlim populatns large enough for analysis, acceptance of homosexualy is particularly low among adherents of Islam. But Nigeria, for example, acceptance of homosexualy is low among Christians and Mlims alike (6% and 8%, rpectively).

Jews Israel are much more likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than Israeli Mlims (53% and 17%, rpectively). When the kids say “That’s so gay, ” they may not be thkg about their LGBT iends, but they are certaly thkg that whatever “gay” means, go agast Amerin genr-trag. The spot, tled “Come As You Are, ” shows a young gay man eatg McDonald’s wh his father, who don’t know his son is gay.

Gay or European is a meme where a group discs whether the character is gay, or jt European, chosg, "Is he gay, or European? Acrdg to the Gay or European page of the Know Your Meme webse[1], this meme has a seri of of anime mic vio (AMV) parodi featurg eded clips om var anime and rtoons and "There Right There, " a song om the mil adaptatn of 2001 Amerin edy film Legally Blon, which one character speculat on the sexual orientatn of another character. Europe has long been viewed as a relatively progrsive part of the world for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights.