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POPE TO CHURCH: BE MORE ACCEPTG OF DIVORCED CATHOLICS, GAYS AND LBIANS
It is the latt attack on LGBT rights the untry, after another anti-gay law was extend last year. * gay tolerance in europe *
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.
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. If someone says they accept or reject homosexualy, that cisn is as potentially important as the way that measure, now that the veats are out of the way, here are a few takeaways:(1) Sub-Saharan Ain and Mlim-majory untri are the least acceptg of 's not even close. Only 2 percent of Pakistanis and Tunisians – who are generally nsired smopolan by Miast standards – said society should accept be clear, though, some Christian-majory untri also overwhelmgly say that society shouldn't accept homosexualy: Ghana and Uganda, both sub-Saharan Ai.
European natn stat creasgly hail LGBT inti as part of morn valu; LGBT regnns have bee a symbol of secular achievements. Disurs around gay rights and sexual diversy are creasgly pted agast prumably homophobic and tolerant ‘others’. An creased tolerant and reprsive attu towards migrants and racialised mori is jtified by their supposed threat to exactly the valu. LGBT tolerance is ed as a marker for morn valu and this posns LGBT people as ‘borr patrollers’ who n unt as part of the morn liberal natn. This paper analys 92 terviews wh LGBT participants who live six small and medium sized ordary ci Europe. It discs how their fear of homophobia is evaluated acrdg to perceived sexual norms and attus at the neighbourhood level. Neighbourhoods are nsired eher LGBT iendly or uniendly acrdg to their soc-mographic characteristics that foc on social class and/or migratn and that tersects wh race, ethnicy and relign. Based on the fdgs, neighbourhoods are both a geographil and a cultural terra that n be unrstood, anised and ntted through a sexualy disurse the productn of borr regim that disciple and produce the nf of the normative, the ‘morn’ and the ‘backward’. Not only are LGBT people posned as borr patrollers but they exprs their fear of homophobia also through borrg. The neighbourhood n then be unrstood, anised and ntted through a sexualy disurse the productn of borr regim. * gay tolerance in europe *
S., Canada and South 's an tertg tail om Pew's report:Attus about homosexualy have been fairly stable recent years, except South Korea, the Uned Stat and Canada, where the percentage sayg homosexualy should be accepted by society has grown by at least ten percentage pots sce 's actually grown most quickly South Korea, where's 's more than doubled om 18 to 39 percent.
)The Pew report not that "untri where relign is ls central people’s liv" also tend to be "among the richt untri the world, " htg at the possibily that wealth (which often means, for example, more robt public tn) rather than religsy is what term acceptance of, before we get too rried away wh the ia that religsy mak people ls tolerant of homosexualy, there are three very important outliers: Cha, Rsia and the Philipp. 4 This paper go on to explore how through this lolised fear of homophobia, LGBT people themselv practice ‘otherg’ of those ducg homophobia; the workg-class and the non-whe populatn specific neighbourhoods the six ordary inti and regnns are creasgly hailed as part of morn valu and viewed as markers of achievements of Wtern mocratic cln. Homonormativy ‘others’ those wh the LGBT muny on the basis of a failure to assiate to heteronormative stctur; those who nnot or will not assiate to the stctur wh s assumptns and stutns of marriage, reproductn and also nsumptn (Rapcewicz 2016; Hennsey 2000).
Homonormativy then rais issu of privilege that are visible the queer muny, as they “tersect wh whe privilege, palism, sexism, trans misogyny, and cissexism, all of which end up leavg many people out of the movement toward greater sexual eedom and equaly” (Kacere 2015, p. This fs wh the dramatic acceptance and ensug assiatn of LGBT people to mastream society the so ‘post-gay’ era that has been fed as an era which LGBT disentangle their sexual orientatn om a sense of ancy and stggle and no longer see as their ma or only inty.
Pope Francis’ “Amoris Laetia” urg Catholic prits to wele gays and lbians, divorced Catholics and others livg nontradnal fai. * gay tolerance in europe *
Acrdg to a social survey that examed 26 European Unn stat and Eastern European untri, Mlims and followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church exprsed the lowt levels of agreement wh the statement that “gay men and lbians should be ee to live their own life as they wish” (Takács and Szalma 2011). Hostily towards homosexualy is not a universal sentiment amongst those who fe themselv by relign: most Mlim MPs the Brish Parliament voted favour of same sex marriage legislatn 2013 and every Mlim MP voted for the same sex marriage legislatn Germany 2017 (BBC News 2013; Wilford 2017). Edutnal attament, particularly terms of higher tn is an important termant propagatg liberal attus towards LGBTs almost every EU untry; reprentative surveys have repeatedly found a stronger crease posive attus towards homosexualy among higher ted, secular, and non-nservative dividuals untri wh greater same-sex rights (Dotti Sani and Quaranta 2021).
Social class together wh natnal prospery teract their effects on attus and enomic equaly ntribut to tolerant social and polil valu while also unrm social tst and produc more general negative attus toward mory groups, cludg lbian and gay people (Anrsen and Fetner 2008) LGBT inti and regnns are creasgly hailed as part of morn valu and viewed as markers of achievements of Wtern mocratic cln, might well be socially unacceptable to be seen to be sceptil of immigrants (Dovid et al. A special Eurobarometer survey dit that, of the five untri discsed, Greek public opn together wh Poland’s is most opposed to homosexual marriag and to child adoptn by same-sex upl (European Commissn 2019) took nsirably longer to adopt laws regulatg same-sex partnerships, and as of 2020, Poland still lacks the first basic form of regnn of same-sex unns. The Roma themselv are nsired to be at great risk of not only poverty but also of systematic stctural and symbolic opprsn and nigratn all aspects of life (Koldska 2009):“The place where I live is a low-e neighbourhood, most of the people are Roma and Mlim, and they do not accept the relatnships (homosexual upl).
Specific areas are also sgled out“For stance, here we have the Can Puiggener neighbourhood of which I’d say 70% is migrated people, sub-Saharan, etc., and the few natnal people that live here well they’re que prived (…) they don’t look upon (homosexualy) wh the same kd of normaly due to the tn that they have, the culture that they have”. It also shows how the participants seemgly tomatilly ‘lump’ people together their md, a tra nfirmed by Kahneman (2011) Saball cy report scrib the se study of a gay man who is nsired a paradigmatic se of a ‘socially acceptable’ homosexual mol: He owns a pany, is fancially secure and married to his lifelong boyiend (Jubany et al. There are certa neighbourhoods that this participant nsirs to be LGBT uniendly due to s high Roma and migrant populatn but he don’t have first-hand experience of homophobia and tends to go to nearby Barcelona or the centre of Saball: “I’ve never been a suatn where I uld observe whether one uld hold hands this neighbourhood” (gay man).