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Contents:
- HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- AM I GAY?
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT
- BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BOYIEND IS GAY
- COMMENT SAVOIR SI VO êT GAY
HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
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This analysis foc on whether people around the world thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society or not. Homosexualy should be accepted by society OR Homosexualy should not be accepted by society. 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.
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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.
AM I GAY?
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Many of the untri surveyed 2002 and 2019 have seen a double-dig crease acceptance of homosexualy. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan.
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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT
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(For more on acceptance of homosexualy over time among all the untri surveyed, see Appendix A. 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 many untri, those on the polil right are ls acceptg of homosexualy than those on the left.
And supporters of several right-wg populist parti Europe are also ls likely to see homosexualy as acceptable. In general, people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg of homosexualy than are those ls wealthy and veloped enomi.
BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
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.
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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
The 2019 survey shows that while majori 16 of the 34 untri surveyed say homosexualy should be accepted by society, global divis rema. Whereas 94% of those surveyed Swen say homosexualy should be accepted, only 7% of people Nigeria say the same. Across the 34 untri surveyed, a median of 52% agree that homosexualy should be accepted wh 38% sayg that should be disuraged.
On a regnal basis, acceptance of homosexualy is hight Wtern Europe and North Ameri.
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.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BOYIEND IS GAY
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.
More than three-quarters of those surveyed Atralia (81%) say homosexualy should be accepted, as do 73% of Filipos. In the three Lat Amerin untri surveyed, strong majori say they accept homosexualy society. 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. While acceptance has creased over the past two s, the partisan divi on homosexualy the U.
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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.
South Korea shows the largt divi, wh 51% of women and 37% of men sayg homosexualy should be accepted by society. 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.