• USA TODAY - LGBTQ acceptance among young people …

    2019/06/24 · Young people are growing less tolerant of LGBTQ individuals, a GLAAD acceptance survey shows, and advocates say a toxic culture may be to blame. Two recent high-profile incidents: On June 16, a ...

  • LGBT Youth | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ...

    2017/06/21 · Effects on Education and Mental Health Exposure to violence can have negative effects on the education and health of any young person and may account for some of the health-related disparities between LGB and heterosexual youth. 4-6 According to the 2015 YRBS, LGB students were 140% (12% v. 5%) more likely to not …

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    2019/06/24 · A new survey shows young adults in the U.S. are now less accepting of LGBTQ people, GLAAD announced on Monday. The fifth iteration of the Accelerating Acceptance Index, conducted for the advocacy ...

  • LGBTQ acceptance on the decline among young …

    2019/06/26 · LGBTQ acceptance in ‘toxic’ decline among young Americans: study By Hannah Sparks View author archive Get author RSS feed Most Popular Today 1 Alison Roman is horrified by Chrissy Teigen: 'I ...

  • GLAAD: Millennials Grow 'Uncomfortable' With LGBTQ ...

    2019/06/25 · GLAAD, the organization dedicated to LGBTQ advocacy in media and culture, released its fifth annual Accelerating Acceptance Index on Monday. The index is a national survey of nearly 1,800 American ...

  • Dying for Acceptance: Suicide Rates in the LGBTQ ...

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  • Global LGBTQ acceptance more polarized, new research …

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  • Acceptance rates of LGBTQ2 people declining among …

    2019/06/26 · This is the second year that acceptance rates have dropped among people aged 18 to 34 in the U.S. “That’s a factor that would not just affect LGBTQ2 issues but potentially others, too ...

  • GLAAD’s 2019 Accelerating Acceptance Index: Results ...

    2019/06/24 · Today, GLAAD announced the findings of its fifth annual Accelerating Acceptance Index, a national survey among U.S. adults conducted on GLAAD’s behalf by The Harris Poll. GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ ...

  • Americans less accepting of LGBT people in 2017

    2018/01/25 · For the first time in four years, Americans are less accepting of LGBT people, a survey finds — a setback activists say is stunning but not unexpected after a turbulent 2017. Fewer than half of ...

  • Facts About Suicide – The Trevor Project

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  • LGBTQ Family Fact Sheet - Census.gov

    1 LGBTQ Family Fact Sheet In Support of August 2017 presentation to NAC Undercount of Young Children Working Group LGBTQ Families: Who We Are and What Our Families Look Like Who We Are: • LGBTQ.Approximately 4.3

  • NORC.org - Americans Move Dramatically Toward Acceptance ...

    In addition to a plurality who now approve of same-sex marriage, Americans overwhelmingly support basic civil liberties and freedom of expression for gays and lesbians, in contrast to sharp division on such issues in the 1970s.

  • Accelerating Acceptance 2017 - GLAAD

    2 Accelerating Acceptance 2017 Introduction Without question, the past few decades have yielded remarkable progress for the LGBTQ community in the United States, with historic advancements achieved for both legal equality and

  • 2018 LGBTQ Youth Report | Human Rights Campaign

    2018/05/16 · HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey ever of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teenagers across the nation, revealing in distressing detail the persistent challenges so many of

  • Cultivating Self-Acceptance in The LGBTQ Community ...

    2019/07/29 · Making amends where there’s been harm is part of the healing process. The more we can recognize, repent, and repair, the more we can prevent future generations from experiencing not only shame, but trauma.

  • New Study Shows Decline in LGBTQ Acceptance Among ...

    2019/06/24 · A new study from GLAAD shows a significant decline in LGBTQ acceptance among young Americans aged 18-34. The Index comes amidst a number of anti-LGBTQ violence and discrimination incidents. Just ...

  • Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ...

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  • The Independent - Britain reaching 'peak acceptance' …

    2018/05/17 · The study also said that in 2010, 60 per cent of the age group who attended religious services at least once a week viewed homosexuality as always wrong - down from 68 per cent in 1990. This ...

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    2019/07/29 · Catholics Can Help Stalled Acceptance Rates for LGBTQ People in U.S.–And in Our Church And in Our Church July 29, 2019 / 7 Comments / in Statistics , Uncategorized / by Cristina Traina

  • Poll: Young Americans’ LGBTQ Acceptance Drops 63% …

    2019/06/27 · According to the Accelerating Acceptance report, Americans aged 18-34 who say they are comfortable interacting with LGBTQ people dropped from 63 percent in 2016 to 53 percent in 2017, and then to 45 percent in 2018. ...

  • Poll: Youth Acceptance of LGBTs Drops from 63% to …

    2019/06/27 · “While young people are identifying as LGBTQ in higher rates than ever before, there has also been an uptick in non-LGBTQ young people pushing back against acceptance,” said Ellis, who is “married” to her partner

  • The Trevor Project — Saving Young LGBTQ Lives - …

    2019/06/27 · Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award ®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.

  • Why Accepting your LGBTQ Child Matters—And How to …

    If your child comes out to you as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer), that may or may not be something you imagined or feel prepared for—but your acceptance really matters to their health and safety. How to . ...

  • 5 key findings about LGBT Americans | Pew Research …

    2017/06/13 · Perhaps as a result of this growing acceptance, the number of people who identify as LGBT in surveys is also rising. About 10 million people, or 4.1% of the U.S. adult population, identified as LGBT in 2016, according to the latest

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  • African-American LGBT community - Wikipedia

    The African-American LGBT community is part of the overall LGBT culture and overall African-American culture. LGBT (also seen as LGBTQ) stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer. The LGBT community did not receive societal recognition until the historical marking of the Stonewall Riots in 1969 in New York at Stonewall Inn ...

  • Support and acceptance for LGBTQ youth should start …

    2018/03/12 · Young people need to feel safe, supported, and affirmed in order to thrive. But far too many LGBTQ youth experience discrimination, bullying, and harassment every day in their classrooms ...

  • Why Are Suicide Rates Higher Among LGBTQ Youth ...

    Sexual minorities face unique risk factors. Various theories abound as to why rates of suicide and/or suicidal ideation are higher among youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ...

  • For Canada's LGBT community, acceptance is still a …

    2017/08/09 · Survey finds members of the LGBT community in Canada feel their sexual orientation is fairly well accepted among their families and friends but not necessarily always in the larger society.

  • Advocating for LGBTQ Equality | Human Rights Campaign ...

    2016/06/22 · Growing Up LGBT in America HRC’s report, Growing Up LGBT in America, is a groundbreaking survey of more than 10,000 LGBT-identified youth ages 13-17. It provides a stark picture of the difficulties they face — the

  • National LGBT Survey: Summary report - GOV.UK

    2018/09/27 · We have made great strides in recent decades in our acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, who make a vital contribution to our culture and to our economy.

  • Support and acceptance for LGBTQ youth should start …

    2018/04/11 · But far too many LGBTQ youth experience discrimination, bullying, and harassment every day in their classrooms, communities, and even in their own homes. These challenges increase their risk factors for negative outcomes, the most alarming of which are disproportionately high rates of serious suicidal thoughts (referred to as …

  • Campus Pride Index

    The Campus Pride Index is a vital tool for assisting campuses in learning ways to improve their LGBTQ campus life and ultimately shape the educational experience to be more inclusive, welcoming and respectful of LGBTQ and ally people. The index is owned and operated by Campus Pride, the leading national nonprofit organization for student …

  • The Global Divide on Homosexuality | Pew Research …

    2013/06/04 · There is a strong relationship between a country’s religiosity and opinions about homosexuality. 2 There is far less acceptance of homosexuality in countries where religion is central to people’s lives – measured by whether they consider religion to be very important, whether they believe it is necessary to believe in God in order to be …

  • U.S. Homosexuality - Statistics & Facts | Statista

    2017/06/09 · Discover all facts and statistics on Homosexuality (gays and lesbians) in the U.S. on statista.com! Approximately one in 100 American women and two in 100 American men identify as homosexual, with ...

  • New GLAAD study shows decline in LGBTQ acceptance in ...

    2019/06/24 · Days before the nation’s 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the start of WorldPride in New York, a new study is measuring American attitudes toward LGBTQ people – and the results aren ...

  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Queer identified People …

    Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer identified (LGBTQ) people are as diverse as the general Canadian population in their experiences of mental health and well-being, they face higher risks for some mental health issues

  • Statistics - LGBTQ Youth in the Classroom

    Approximately one in ten students is LGBTQ (Erickson, Gladstone, Gottlieb, Ng & Parkins, 2011). Hostility, apprehension and lack of understanding towards homosexuality and gender noncomformity continue to plague LGBTQ youth despite signs of greater acceptance in some areas (Erickson, Gladstone, Gottlieb, Ng & Parkins, 2011).

  • Suicide Risk and Prevention for LGBTQ People

    Actual suicide rates among LGBTQ people are not known because sexual orientation and gender identity are not reported in death records. 1 What we do know about suicidality among LGBTQ people is through surveys in which …

  • The Importance of Family Support When LGBTQ Youth ...

    2017/03/14 · The Importance of Family Support When LGBTQ Youth Come Out Mar 14, 2017, 4:46pm Francesca Gaiba The moment of coming out is not the right time for a parent or family member to begin tackling thoughts and feelings about sexual orientation and gender identity.

  • LGBTQ in Japan: Avoiding the Closet, Revisited - GaijinPot

    2020/02/14 · For Japanese queer folk, things aren’t great, but they aren’t especially bad either, a situation Japanese professor Masami Tamagawa cites as the reason for low rates of coming out in Japan. In his article “Coming Out of the Closet in Japan,” he describes the ambivalence Japanese people feel toward coming out at work or to their …

  • A New Global Acceptance Index for LGBT people - …

    2018/04/18 · Today, the Williams Institute, as part of the LGBTI Global Development Partnership has released three new research reports detailing the average levels of acceptance for LGBT people around the world.

  • Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of …

    2010/11/15 · ISSUE: The role of family acceptance as a protective factor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adolescents and young adults has not been established. METHODS: A quantitative measure...

  • LGBTQ Acceptance Is Declining Amongst Millennials …

    2019/06/26 · Although the new survey revealed that most people’s acceptance and comfort with the LGBTQ community has stabilized this year, millennials and Generation Z, which includes people in the 18-to-34 age bracket, are becoming

  • How Self-Acceptance Affects Depression in LGBTQ ...

    2015/01/07 · A lack of self-acceptance can even worsen depression in LGBTQ individuals. Higher Rates of Depression Among LGBTQ Individuals When you think about it, it isn’t too hard to see why so many LGBTQ people have issues with mental health.

  • LGBTQ+ Rehab and Addiction Treatment for the Gay ...

    2019/11/05 · LGBTQ+ Rehab and Addiction Treatment for the Gay Community Recovery Unplugged understands the issues that the LGBTQ populations faces and how they can lead to addiction. Every day, people in the community are shunned for simply expressing who they are.

  • LGBTQ Youth | StopBullying.gov

    2019/12/05 · Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth and those perceived as LGBTQ are at an increased risk of being bullied. Results from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey show that, nationwide, more U.S. high school students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) report having been bullied on …

  • Acceptance rates of LGBTQ2 people declining among …

    2019/06/26 · Acceptance rates of LGBTQ2 people declining among U.S. millennials: survey 2019-06-26 A recent survey found young people in the United States are feeling less comfortable around LGBTQ2 people than they were last year.

  • Acceptance of LGBT Sinking Among the Youth, and It's ...

    2019/06/26 · Despite decades of effort by the LGBT community to push acceptance, sometimes to the point of force, a recent poll found that approval among the younger generation is on the decline. According to USA Today, a new Harris poll taken on behalf of GLAAD released on Monday showed that a significant decline has occurred in terms of …