THE OPENING of a new gay bed and breakfast near Gorey, which offers rooms by the hour or by the night, and where the bedrooms have an 'open door' policy, has been cricised by members of the lol gay muny who say the service is 'seedy'. However, the proprietor said this week that he had a great rponse om gay men om as far away as Cork, Dubl and Galway, sayg the service offered is legal, and allows gay people to have 'a b of fun'.
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PHG AT AN OPEN DOOR: WHEN N PERSONAL STORI CHANGE MDS ON GAY RIGHTS?
Unrstandg a recent experiment that found that a personal story by a gay nvasser led to large shifts terviewe' attus. * gay open door policy *
In a recently published rearch article, “When ntact chang mds: An experiment on transmissn of support for gay equaly, ” polil scientists Michael LaCour and Donald Green wre:Can a sgle nversatn change mds on divisive social issu, such as same-sex marriage? A randomized placebo-ntrolled trial asssed whether gay (n = 22) or straight (n = 19) msengers were effective at enuragg voters (n = 972) to support same-sex marriage and whether attu change persisted and spread to others voters’ social works. The rults, measured by an unrelated panel survey, show that both gay and straight nvassers produced large effects ially, but only gay nvassers’ effects persisted 3-week, 6-week, and 9-month follow-ups.
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)Here’s how I see : public opn on same-sex marriage and other gay-rights issu has been very fluid durg the past 15 years, pecially so durg the perd of the survey. Lots of Californians were gog to change their opn to be more favorable to gay marriage, and average opns were movg steadily this directn. The Communy Foundatn’s Open Door Fund enhanc the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng (LGBTQ+) people Boulr senrs to youth, our LGBTQ+ muny fac persistent challeng.
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