GLAAD “Accelerating Acceptance” report shows complacency in support for GLBT issues

By John Mack Freeman

GLAAD just released its 2016 “Accelerating Acceptance” report, and it shows that while progress has been made towards achieving full GLBT equality, an attitude of complacency is settling in with many GLBT supporters. From GLAAD’s Key Findings:

  • Perhaps because marriage equality was so widely covered by the media in 2015, half (50%) of all non-LGBT Americans are now under the false and potentially dangerous impression that ‘gay people have the same rights as everybody else.’
  • Further, many Americans are unconcerned by or unaware of LGBT issues. Over a quarter (27%) of non-LGBT Americans say that violence against transgender people is not a serious problem. This, despite the fact that at least 21 transgender women, mostly women of color, were murdered in the U.S. in 2015.
  • Similarly, 37% of non-LGBT Americans say that homelessness among LGBT youth is not a serious problem. According to The Williams Institute at UCLA, however, approximately 40% of all homeless youth identify as LGBT.
  • Roughly a third of non-LGBT Americans profess no strong opinion about important LGBT issues. Interestingly, this ambivalence appears across segments, including allies.

Read the full report here.

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