A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
Contents:
- OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE
- GLOBAL SURVEY REVEALS THAT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE LAGS 3 REGNS
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- ACCEPTG YOUR GAYNS
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
- UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
OP-ED: WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE
What is really at stake? If you’re gay, how far do beg found “morally acceptable” by two-thirds of your fellow Amerins get you? * accepting gayness *
I have watched, wh some dismay, the attempts at this sort of unselg beg iated by gay support groups at the High School level. The support and unselg groups are actually formed to help kids, who disver that they are gay, to pe wh a hostile life. They weren't too eager to talk to him bee they did not even want to acknowledge that they had a gay kid the school.
GLOBAL SURVEY REVEALS THAT ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE LAGS 3 REGNS
Three regns the world are ls acceptg of gay people, largely bee of those areas' cultur and low accsibily to global msag. * accepting gayness *
It didn't take long for the people at the new school to figure out that he was gay and started all over aga. They should not be abandoned to a moral garbage dump of -- YOU ARE GAY -- so don't matter what "you people" do.
If we handled all of our children the same manner that we treat our gay children, I would hate to see what a sorry ms our world would be. A random sample of more than 1, 000 Amerins adults is asked whether “gay or lbian relatns” between nsentg adults are “morally acceptable or morally wrong. If you’re gay, exactly how far do beg found “morally acceptable” by two-thirds of your fellow Amerins get you?
My rearch has brought me face-to-face wh the heterosexual rints of urban gay districts, or “gayborhoods, ” of big Amerin ci. I’ve learned how fe the le is between progrs and prejudice, and how broad statistics about public opn nceal the subtle forms of discrimatn that now routely surface between gay and straight neighbors.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * accepting gayness *
The majory of the straight people that I’ve spoken wh durg my rearch said that they supported gay civil rights, felt a mon humany wh gay people (“we’re all jt people”) and had posive views about the tegratn of gay spac the cy (gayborhoods are “welg, ” “clive, ” and “open” environments where we n all “thrive together, ” I was told). Many of my terviewe who scribed themselv as “liberal” and “acceptg” of homosexualy remaed apathetic about the and nsequenc of social equaly.
(Some also claimed to live among a “diverse” populatn, even though their lol gayborhood lacked racial or ethnic diversy. )Some straight people saw themselv as “gay-bld, ” much like a whe person might say that she is “lorbld” toward race and racial discrimatn. But to say that beg gay is a “nonfactor” is strategic for straights; allows them to exempt themselv om polil engagement and material support.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
Alright, so lately Ive been acceptg the fact that I am gay, however, I still feel weird about . Jt the fact that "I am gay" weirds me out, and... * accepting gayness *
” Specifilly they felt exclud om LGBTQ spac or bs, such as when a gay-owned bakery Chigo stuted a no-child policy.
When I asked about this trend, a straight man told me that gays and lbians should “be happy” about , rather than focg so much on prejudice, discrimatn and equaly. When I prsed straight rints to talk about ways anti-gay discrimatn persists — thgs like hate crim or hog discrimatn — I was told to “get over .
ACCEPTG YOUR GAYNS
* accepting gayness *
Their sentiments reflected a much larger pattern that has also been ptured by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. ” In a 2015 study that went more -pth on same-sex marriage, GLAAD also found:34% of heterosexual Amerins are unfortable attendg a same-sex weddg;43% are unfortable brgg a child to a same-sex weddg;36% percent are unfortable seeg same-sex upl hold bee straight people fd gays “morally acceptable” and even move to their neighborhoods do not mean that their prejudice is gone; jt tak subtler forms. Progrsive straights say they support “diversy” and “equaly” — but they e those terms to mean an improvement gay-straight relatns, not actual improvement the liv of LGBTQ are mistaken if we terpret — or celebrate — straight people movg to gay neighborhoods as evince that we have ma signifint stris toward equaly.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
The followg blog is wrten by Greg Col. Greg is part of The Center's llaborative team and is the thor of the book Sgle, Gay, Christian. “Is God anti-gay?” Many people expect the answer to this qutn to be a simple bary, eher y or no. If you’re a nservative ( the totalizg sense of the word), the answer is absolutely y: God mt be anti-gay, bee * accepting gayness *
Te progrs would be thgs like employment and hog non-discrimatn laws, closg the sexual orientatn wage gap, addrsg anti-gay and anti-trans hate crim, and other prsg social problems.
Unls progrsive straights are helpg on those onts, they may be gays’ neighbors, but they aren’t their Ghaziani, an associate profsor of soclogy at the Universy of Brish Columbia, is thor of “There Go the Gayborhood? SEATTLE — The acceptance of gay rights has unrgone an unprecented worldwi surge recent years, wh ernments grantg gay people the right to marry and protectns om discrimatn. But that's not the se everywhere, largely bee of unyieldg lol cultur that thwart pro-gay global views, new rearch anti-gay cultur are pecially prevalent three world regns: the Mlim world, the former Soviet Unn and Eastern Bloc, and sub-Saharan Ai, said study rearcher Louisa Roberts, a doctoral ndidate soclogy at The Oh State Universy.
WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
"Even as there's been this ph toward acceptance of homosexualy at the global level, you have ristance at var regnal levels, " Roberts told Live Science.
[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Roberts based much of her work on two enormo datasets: the tegrated World Valu Survey and the European Valu Survey.
Usg data llected om 1981 to 2012, Roberts examed how people's views on homosexualy changed over all, she looked at data om 87 untri, wh an average sample size of about 1, 600 people per untry.
UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
In particular, she looked at a qutn askg participants how jtifiable they thought homosexualy was on a sle om 1 to 10, wh 1 beg "never jtifiable" and 10 beg "always jtifiable. Numbers dite "that there has been a global upswg the global acceptance of homosexualy, " Roberts the averag for untri the Mlim world (which clus much of the Middle East, parts of North Ai and several Southeast Asian natns) and sub-Saharan Ai stayed unr 2.
Acceptance surgePeople livg different regns of the world changed their perceptns on homosexualy var ways, Roberts found.