News and Events => People news => Topic started by: DriftingCrow on June 28, 2013, 05:53:04 PM Return to Full Version
Title: In Gay America, Optimism Abounds As Stigma Persists, Pew Says
Post by: DriftingCrow on June 28, 2013, 05:53:04 PM
Post by: DriftingCrow on June 28, 2013, 05:53:04 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/13/191355273/in-gay-america-optimism-abounds-as-stigma-persists-pew-says (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/13/191355273/in-gay-america-optimism-abounds-as-stigma-persists-pew-says)
Author: Bill Chappell Source: NPR
" "The Pew Research Center finds some 90 percent of LGBT people feel more accepted now than a decade ago, and believe that will continue," reports NPR's Jennifer Ludden. "They credit more personal interactions between gays and straights, high-profile advocates — like President Obama — and more same-sex parenting." But many of the 1,197 adults who took part in the online survey — the first that Pew has conducted of the LGBT community — say they also see a strong stigma in American culture."
-------------
See the link for more of PEW's findings
Author: Bill Chappell Source: NPR
" "The Pew Research Center finds some 90 percent of LGBT people feel more accepted now than a decade ago, and believe that will continue," reports NPR's Jennifer Ludden. "They credit more personal interactions between gays and straights, high-profile advocates — like President Obama — and more same-sex parenting." But many of the 1,197 adults who took part in the online survey — the first that Pew has conducted of the LGBT community — say they also see a strong stigma in American culture."
-------------
See the link for more of PEW's findings