{"id":2357,"date":"2016-01-24T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2016-01-24T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:00:48","slug":"glaad-accelerating-acceptance-report-shows-complacency-in-support-for-glbt-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2357","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD &#8220;Accelerating Acceptance&#8221; report shows complacency in support for GLBT issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GLAAD just released its 2016 &#8220;Accelerating Acceptance&#8221; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/blog\/glaads-accelerating-acceptance-report-provides-snapshot-americans-feelings-about-lgbt-issues\">GLAAD&#8217;s Key Findings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.?<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly a third of non-LGBT Americans profess no strong opinion about important LGBT issues. Interestingly, this ambivalence appears across segments, including allies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/files\/2016_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf\">Read the full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman GLAAD just released its 2016 &#8220;Accelerating Acceptance&#8221; 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&#8217;s Key Findings: Perhaps because marriage equality was so widely covered by the media in 2015, half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[595,337,552,370],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-complacency","tag-glaad","tag-glbt-issues","tag-glbt-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}