Acceptance of lgbtq in the society
LGBTQ+ activist Barbara Gittings once said, “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of our communities.”
While political wins are important for the LGBTQ+ community, accurate LGBTQ acceptance goes deeper. As Barbara Gittings said, we’ll know the concrete struggle has been won when we feel respected, accepted, and valued by our peers, workplaces, and families. We look forward to the day when every LGBTQ person feels like they can be themselves, without hiding who they love or how they identify.
The good news is that around the world, LGBTQ acceptance is increasing. Advocacy of LGBTQ people in media reached a record tall in 2022. The global divide over LGBTQ rights is narrowing. Plus, 72% of Americans now agree that homosexuality should be acknowledged by society — vs. just 42% who agreed in 2007.
That said, LGBTQ acceptance still has a long way to go. Hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have already been filed in the U.S. this year. Even President Biden has warned against a recent ascend in violence and hate against LGBTQ people. And globally, 83% of LBGTQ people still obscure their sexual orientation.
LGBTQ acceptance is
Overview
Around the world, people are under attack for who they are.
Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender diverse or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.
Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can reach in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to entity denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also tackle suppression across the globe.
The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:
- your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
- gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
- gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
- sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive
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Yes No No opinion % % % 2023 May 1-24 39 60 * 2021 May 3-18 31 69 * Should be legal Should not be legal No opinion % % % 2021 May 3-18 ^ 79 18 2 2020 May 1-13 72 24 3 2019 May 1-12 73 26 2 2018 May 1-10 75 23 2 2017 May 3-7 72 23 5 2016 May 4-8 68 28 4 2015 Jul 8-12 68 28 4 2015 May 6-10 69 28 4 2014 May 8-11 66 30 4 2013 Jul 10-14 64 31 5 2013 May 2-7 65 31 5 2012 Nov 26-29 64 33 3 2012 May 3-6 63 31 6 2011 Dec 15-18 62 33 5 2011 May 5-8 64 32 4 2010 May 3-6 58 36 6 2009 May 7-10 56 40 4 2008 May 8-11 ^ 55 40 5 2007 May 10-13 59 37 4 2006 May 8-11 † 56 40 4 2005 Aug 22-25 49 44 7 2005 May 2-5 52 43 5 2004 May 2-4 52 43 5 2004 Jan 9-11 46 49 5 2003 Jul 25-2 Accelerating Acceptance 2023
As the LGBTQ community continues to grow and become more noticeable, the 2023 Accelerating Acceptance study reveals that a record number of non-LGBTQ Americans support equal rights for the LGBTQ society. The Study also shows that an overwhelming majority of non-LGBTQ Americans now believe that LGBTQ people should have the independence to live their being and not be discriminated against, and that schools should be a harmless and accepting place for all youth.
With the free 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 Analyze also directly correlates how the epidemic of anti-LGBTQ legislation and online abhor leads to higher levels of real-world harm for LGBTQ people, including but not limited to discrimination and violence.
Moreover, GLAAD’s Accelerating Acceptance study finds that while acceptance for LGBTQ people and youth acquire reached record highs, the research also reveals a significant lack of sympathetic and familiarity for nonbinary and transg
What’s Behind the Rapid Ascend in LGBTQ Identity?
Newsletter Pride 6, 2025
Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
Since 2012, Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first few years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual person, transgender, or queer was relatively low and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year grow in LGBTQ identity. In 2024, nearly one in ten (9.3 percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.
The firm rise in LGBTQ culture among the public is worth noting, but it’s not the most key part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic increase among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of new women who identify as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as well. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to identify as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as