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Study: Majority of US Latinos accepting of gay people
A study released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center has found that 59 per cent of US Latinos think that society should be accepting of homosexuality, while this figure climbs nine per cent higher with second generation Hispanics.
The findings of the study correlates well with that of the US at large, where younger generations are more accepting of sexual diversity than the older generations. 69 per cent of 18-29 year-olds, and 60 per cent of 30-49 year-olds have said that homosexuality should be accepted by society.
Another interesting finding of the study is that where the Latinos were born also correlated with levels of acceptance. While 53 per cent of immigrant Hispanics had inclusive feelings about sexual minorities, 68 per cent of second generation Latinos felt the same way. With immigration from Latin American countries declining, and native-born Hispanic population on the rise, it would seem, the study suggests, that the ethnic group will move with the rest of the US in becoming more inclusive of LGBT people.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/06/study-majority-of-us-latinos-accepting-of-gay-people/
pipoman
(16,038 posts)are mostly accepting of everyone..live and let liv'ers if you will...a beautiful people..
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)has gone from being fairly outraged over gays to be coming to terms with them over the decades. Thirty years ago he would be openly belligerent if (not to their face) if he perceived some one to be gay. He would get agitated and have to be somewhere else quite suddenly. If he saw someone on tv he would mock them and just act like a fool. Now, if he finds me watching something like Drag Race, he just shakes his head. I know it isn't much, but it's better than having to change the channel because listening to him would get to be too much.
pinto
(106,886 posts)of equality overall. Some of it spurred by very public cutting edge events, some of it so gradual it almost gets overlooked. Yet all of it moves us all forward. Glad to see this specific Pew study...
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)Sorry this rubs me the wrong way. If it said they approve of equality, marriage and otherwise, then cool, but it doesn't. It says that a large minority think it should be unacceptable to be gay, why in the world is that? I know they are strongly Catholic, but it isn't like their in the same backward world that Uganda is.
This shouldn't be news, this should be old hat.
Now show me that a majority of Latinas and Latinos are for equality for LGBT, then we have something to celebrate.