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It's official: overwhelming majority of Americans support LGBTQ+ rights [1]

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Date: 2023-06-01  

It’s the first day of Pride and finally some good news! It’s something we here at DailyKos anticipated but it’s nice to see some numbers. Although the sample set was only around 2500, the annual GLAAD Accelerating Acceptance Survey has been released and the results are that Americans OVERWHELMINGLY support LGBTQ+ rights. It’s not even close.

As the LGBTQ community continues to expand and become more visible, the 2023 Accelerating Acceptance study reveals that a record number of non-LGBTQ Americans support equal rights for the LGBTQ community. The Study also shows that an overwhelming majority of non-LGBTQ Americans now believe that LGBTQ people should have the freedom to live their life and not be discriminated against, and that schools should be a safe and accepting place for all youth. With the release of this data, GLAAD finds that support for LGBTQ equal rights in America among non-LGBTQ people is now at an all-time high. Any narrative claiming otherwise, goes against a statistical supermajority of consensus, public opinion and American values. The Study also directly correlates how the epidemic of anti-LGBTQ legislation and online hate leads to higher levels of real-world harm for LGBTQ people, including but not limited to discrimination and violence.

Using a survey of 2500 adults 18 and over, GLAAD found:

A 96% supermajority of non-LGBTQ Americans agree that schools should be a safe and accepting place for all youth. A 91% supermajority of non-LGBTQ Americans agree that LGBTQ people should have the freedom to live their life and not be discriminated against An 84% supermajority of non-LGBTQ Americans support equal rights for the LGBTQ community

Turns out demagoguery against the LGBTQ+ community in order to win elections is not as popular as Republicans think it is. The statistics show not only an “all-time high” of support for LGBTQ+ equal rights, they also indicate that majorities of Americans disagree with a loud minority of right-wing figures who have targeted school districts, medical professionals, and companies that seek to uplift LGBTQ+ identities.

There is still work to do, however.

55% of non-LGBTQ Americans do not understand the dimensions of the LGBTQ community or how to describe individuals that make up the LGBTQ community. Less than 30% (28%) of non-LGBTQ Americans say they personally know a transgender person. 50% of non-LGBTQ Americans agree that nonbinary and transgender people are new and/or unfamiliar to them.

Even religious people aren’t as bigoted as we’re being told they are.

80% of non-LGBTQ adults are comfortable having a gay, lesbian or bisexual person at their place of worship. 76% of non-LGBTQ adults are comfortable having a nonbinary person at their place of worship 76% of non-LGBTQ adults are comfortable having a transgender person at their place of worship.

Those are pretty high numbers if you ask me.

In other news, Florida teachers explain “We’re not teaching your kids to be gay!”

Happy Pride!

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