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‘Erosion in acceptance’ of LGBTQ people among young Americans, survey finds

Young Americans ages 18-34 are increasingly uncomfortable around LGBTQ people in personal situations, like learning a family member, doctor, or child’s teacher is LGBTQ.

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Young Americans ages 18-34 are increasingly uncomfortable around LGBTQ people in personal situations, like learning a family member, doctor, or child’s teacher is LGBTQ.
June 24, 2019, 2:19 PM EDT

In its annual “Accelerating Acceptance” survey, GLAAD found that people ages 18-34 are increasingly uncomfortable in “personal scenarios” with LGBTQ people — like learning that a family member, doctor or child’s teacher is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Nationwide, the support for “equal rights for the LGBT community” remained stable at 80 percent, GLAAD’s survey found. But the biggest drop in support identified by the LGBTQ rights group was among the youngest Americans.
In 2016, 24 percent of respondents age 18-34 said they would feel uncomfortable with a LGBTQ family member; by 2018 that rose to 36 percent — about one in three. A similar rise was measured among the youngest group of respondents who say they would feel uncomfortable to learn their child was receiving an LGBTQ history lesson at school, from 27 percent to 39 percent.
"With the knowledge that erosion in acceptance was primarily happening among younger males, GLAAD launched a program dedicated to working with the video game industry on LGBTQ inclusion, to bring LGBTQ characters and stories to a world where male audiences were consuming content," said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, in a press release announcing a selection of survey findings.
This marked shift is reflected in the shrinking of a group of respondents that GLAAD classifies as “allies” — those who say they are “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in all seven interpersonal situations tested. In 2016, 62 percent of young men ages 18-34 reported feeling comfortable in all seven LGBTQ situations; in 2018, that number dropped to 35 percent, although GLAAD did not say which or how many interpersonal situations saw a decline in support.
"The younger generation has traditionally been thought of as a beacon of progressive values," said Ellis said. "We have taken that idea for granted, and this year’s results show that the sharp and quick rise in divisive rhetoric in politics and culture is having a negative influence on younger Americans"
GLAAD’s findings support other recent surveys, including the PRRI survey, that show generalized support for LGBTQ equal rights remains strong. Their March survey found that nearly 70 percent of all Americans, with majorities across all religions, support “broad nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”
A recent poll from the Williams Institute at UCLA found about half of voters are less likely to support a candidate because they are over 70. Just 34 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to support a candidate because he or she is gay.
According to a review of Gallup polling about homosexuality, first queried in 1977, support for gay people continues to increase. In 1977, just 13 percent of Americans believed being gay or lesbian is innate; today that number is 49 percent. In 1977, 14 percent of people believed gay and lesbians should be allowed to adopt; today it is 75 percent. In 1977, 56 percent of respondents said gay people should have equal employment rights; today, 93 percent believe that.

 

[Slimy Time]

If you had told me they collected real sperm to put in the resevoir, I would believe you.

If you had said they had made sure it was HIV positive sperm to combat prejudice, I would believe you.

With the Bug Chasing community, which is made of predominantly homosexual men, this would be a possibility. Poz me up baby.

 

[zap2theextreme]

It's probably because their beliefs are held by the majority of people in hollywood, the media, the government, the corporations, and every tech billionaire in sillicon valley. Yet somehow they are still embattled, still victims, and still powerless despite being able to enact sweeping censorship across all the social media platforms that control the entire discourse of America.

 

[Ashen One]

Not surprising, really. Other people already said things I wanted to in better ways than I could but there's a point I don't think got mentioned.

Not only the stuff you're supposed to accept got more and more unsavory as time went on (Seriously, a "Kids can handle the kink at Pride" article? Fuck off with that shit), but you no longer can just "accept" it. Acceptance and tolerance now makes you no better than those bigoted racist Drumpf supporters.

No, you must CELEBRATE their queernex or you're commiting literal violence against the LGBTQ2SABBQBYOB+ community. If you badger people enough with the idea they must like something they don't like or don't care enough either way, people will start actively disliking it through sheer annoyance.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

With the Bug Chasing community, which is made of predominantly homosexual men, this would be a possibility. Poz me up baby.

Honestly when they started to lose me for real was when they started reeeeing about how mean it is for the FDA and the Red Cross and whatever not accepting blood donation from fags. Like ok, I have a family member who is a specialist pediatrician who worked with kids who needed blood transfusions in the 1980s and, accordingly, spent most of the year 1991 dressed to attend funerals. Anyone with a brain and the ability to do basic math who looks up the stats on the CDC can see why it's a foolish risk to let such a tiny part of the population who has such an overwhelming majority of the cases of this deadly bloodborne disease, give blood to sick, vulnerable people who need transfusions. Anyhow donations are supposed to be about GIVING, not about getting asspats or "validation" and good feels. So if someone says no thanks, you go with that and leave it alone. You don't force a donation on someone, and especially you don't try to force bodily fluids on someone, and especially you don't do it when you're a zillion times likelier to give them a deadly disease than any other random person.

Finally I got into an argument with some people online about this and they said that no no no, your info is outdated, now PREP is so good, and the treatments for HIV are so good, they should be able to donate blood regardless, because "it keeps their viral load so low they can't transmit it even if they have it!" So they literally want kids with cancer and grandpas having heart surgery to get pozzed blood so the gays can get their cookie and a sticker. FUCK that.

 

[turboNIG-3k]

Not surprising. When you allow the crazies, degenerates and borderline criminals become the face of the movement, people start to go from the idea of agreeing with it to the reality that a number of these people are lunatics.

Gatekeeping works and you should never trust anyone vocally opposed to it.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Not surprised. Pendulum swings both ways when you force people to accept your specialness.

Yep. That's kind of the problem that people don't get and the root of the problem with Progressiveness in general. You can't force people to accept a group. Even if you grant that group rights they didn't have before (e.g. marriage), you still can't force people to accept it nor shame them into acceptance. The process of acceptance takes decades. It's normal that some people will still see new things are abnormal, disgusting, or unnatural. As long as they don't act upon it, you just have to keep swimming.

And if the counterargument to this is "but gay people can't wait this long!", well fuck it. Black people and women are still in the final stages of the process of acceptance in many parts of the world and the fight for their rights started about 50 years ago. Why would LGB or T have it any easier or faster? They want to achieve right now what took other groups almost half a century. Talk about demanding privileges.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I don't even accept myself anymore. Thanks, lefts!

 

[AF 802]

But how can we blame the Jews on this?

 

[Fek]

Honestly when they started to lose me for real was when they started reeeeing about how mean it is for the FDA and the Red Cross and whatever not accepting blood donation from fags. Like ok, I have a family member who is a specialist pediatrician who worked with kids who needed blood transfusions in the 1980s and, accordingly, spent most of the year 1991 dressed to attend funerals. Anyone with a brain and the ability to do basic math who looks up the stats on the CDC can see why it's a foolish risk to let such a tiny part of the population who has such an overwhelming majority of the cases of this deadly bloodborne disease, give blood to sick, vulnerable people who need transfusions. Anyhow donations are supposed to be about GIVING, not about getting asspats or "validation" and good feels. So if someone says no thanks, you go with that and leave it alone. You don't force a donation on someone, and especially you don't try to force bodily fluids on someone, and especially you don't do it when you're a zillion times likelier to give them a deadly disease than any other random person.

Finally I got into an argument with some people online about this and they said that no no no, your info is outdated, now PREP is so good, and the treatments for HIV are so good, they should be able to donate blood regardless, because "it keeps their viral load so low they can't transmit it even if they have it!" So they literally want kids with cancer and grandpas having heart surgery to get pozzed blood so the gays can get their cookie and a sticker. FUCK that.

Yeah, uh..I cannot possibly convey how absolutely sinister the blood collection practices (largely perpetuated by big pharma) were in the 80s. Way, way too powerlevely to go any further with that, but suffice it to say it was some seriously sick shit.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Just imagine having a 50-yo lady telling you that you should be having meaningless sex as a 14 year old.

It's not that hard. I'm sure that 50 years old lady is single and a feminist. She's trying to make children take bad decisions to validate her own bad choices and then offer them her system of belief as a solution.

This is even worst than religious people because they don't first force you to sin so you can clean yourself up. Rasputin did that and he was insane.

I used to go to church when I was a kid were the pastor and other people in charge were anti LGBT saying their acceptance was only a front so they could shove their degeneracy down your throat, your kid's throat, through the media, in schools,and in public. I used to laugh at that, but is sounds like they really were right in the end.

That's the main difference between conservative and liberal ways of seeing life. conservative-minded people tend to see and think on the long term.

 

[Jack Awful]

"Why aren't young people responding positively to us shoving blatant propaganda into their video games?!?!"

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

But how can we blame the Jews on this?

I can't, but I can sure blame Communists.

Yeah, uh..I cannot possibly convey how absolutely sinister the blood collection practices (largely perpetuated by big pharma) were in the 80s. Way, way too powerlevely to go any further with that, but suffice it to say it was some seriously sick shit.

If too much pl, is there some place I can read about this? I'm interested now.

 

[Stoneheart]

Stupid gay people, they should have run and started a civil war the moment people started putting them in one group with lesbians and other freaks.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

On a personal level I don't give two fucks about anyone's degeneracy as long as they're not shoving it down children's throats. It's easy enough for me to ignore, but I understand that everyone has their limit and at some point that limit will get crossed.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I can't, but I can sure blame communists

Hmm that has nothing at all to do with jews, like weren't 5% or so of communist leaders not jewish.

 

[AF 802]

I can't, but I can sure blame Communists.

So, the Jews by the way of (((communists))). Got it, heading back to the helicopter.

 

[Damn Near]

But how can we blame the Jews on this?

pretty fucking easily

 

[Slimy Time]

Honestly when they started to lose me for real was when they started reeeeing about how mean it is for the FDA and the Red Cross and whatever not accepting blood donation from fags. Like ok, I have a family member who is a specialist pediatrician who worked with kids who needed blood transfusions in the 1980s and, accordingly, spent most of the year 1991 dressed to attend funerals. Anyone with a brain and the ability to do basic math who looks up the stats on the CDC can see why it's a foolish risk to let such a tiny part of the population who has such an overwhelming majority of the cases of this deadly bloodborne disease, give blood to sick, vulnerable people who need transfusions. Anyhow donations are supposed to be about GIVING, not about getting asspats or "validation" and good feels. So if someone says no thanks, you go with that and leave it alone. You don't force a donation on someone, and especially you don't try to force bodily fluids on someone, and especially you don't do it when you're a zillion times likelier to give them a deadly disease than any other random person.

Finally I got into an argument with some people online about this and they said that no no no, your info is outdated, now PREP is so good, and the treatments for HIV are so good, they should be able to donate blood regardless, because "it keeps their viral load so low they can't transmit it even if they have it!" So they literally want kids with cancer and grandpas having heart surgery to get pozzed blood so the gays can get their cookie and a sticker. FUCK that.

There is a reason why "AIDS" was initially called "GRIDS". That shit is so prevalent in the community it was assumed only they got it. One of the things that HIV and AIDS specialists know but don't advertise is how much more likely it is for someone to catch the disease from anal sex compared to vaginal sex, about 10 times higher. The main method of normal consensual gay sex between men is 10 time more likely to pass it, and that's not counting the degenerate stuff they do. How many of those guys take antiretrovirals, a drug that renders HIV "undetectable" to modern medicine, and basically renders it impossible for it to be passed after a set amount of time taking them (2 years iirc)? Bet you it's not a lot.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I can't, but I can sure blame Communists.



If too much pl, is there some place I can read about this? I'm interested now.

I don't have a link handy, but I do know that the AIDS crisis era blood collection practices are one reason why you no longer can receive a cash payment for a blood donation. (Plasma is different because it's fractionated and goes through a more intensive zapping and waiting period before it goes into anybody.) I read a horror story of a blood bank in San Francisco setting up shop next to the gay bars because the slutty fags would stop by and give a pint to get pocket money to spend partying, on their way to the club. So it was like one Saturday, fuck seven guys in the bathhouse, following Friday, open your newly pozzed vein to get cash to go do it again.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Why are people surprised? LGBTQIAARP2.5Omega brings nothing but societal rot everywhere it spreads. It's nature, those who go against nature so strongly are bound to be treated like they have defects or diseases. An obese person is more painful to look at because they immediately paint the word "unhealthy" in our brains. Anomalies being treated as pariahs is normal.