Support for gays

But even with these sharp divides, views are changing in many of the countries that have been surveyed since , when Pew Research Center first began asking this question. These are among the major findings of a Pew Research Center survey conducted among 38, people in 34 countries from May 13 to Oct.

The study is a follow-up to a report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an increase in acceptance of homosexuality across many of the countries surveyed in both years. This is a function not only of economic development of nations, but also religious and political attitudes.

Find out about gay support and support groups for LGBT here. There also have been fairly large shifts in acceptance of homosexuality over the past 17 years in two very different places: Mexico and Japan. And supporters of several right-wing populist parties in Europe are also less likely to see homosexuality as acceptable.

In the three Latin American countries surveyed, strong majorities say they accept homosexuality in society. Pew Research Center has been gathering data on acceptance of homosexuality in the U. However, while it took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 points from to just before the federal legalization of gay marriage in June , there was a near equal rise in acceptance in just the four years since legalization.

As it was in , when the question was last asked, attitudes on the acceptance of homosexuality are shaped by the country in which people live. People in the Asia-Pacific region show little consensus on the subject. On a regional basis, acceptance of homosexuality is highest in Western Europe and North America.

Many of the countries surveyed in and have seen a double-digit increase in acceptance of homosexuality. While acceptance has increased over the past two decades, the partisan divide on homosexuality in the U. Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and the survey methodology.

This includes a point increase since in South Africa and a point increase in South Korea over the same time period. The question is a long-term trend, first asked in the U. Respondents did not get any further instructions on how to interpret the question and no significant problems were noted during the fielding of the survey.

For this report, we used data from a survey conducted across 34 countries from May 13 to Oct. In the Asia-Pacific region, face-to-face surveys were conducted in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, while phone surveys were administered in Australia, Japan and South Korea.

Despite major changes in laws and norms surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world , public opinion on the acceptance of homosexuality in society remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development. This collection provides a number of places for LGBTQ individuals, families, and others to find trained counselors, peer support, toolkits, fact sheets, and additional resources and information for individual support or about issues within the larger LGBTQ community, including violence against the LGBTQ community.

Here is a list of LGBTQ crisis hotlines and support resources. In many countries, those on the political right are less accepting of homosexuality than those on the left. Political ideology also plays a role in acceptance of homosexuality. Crisis intervention and suicide prevention phone service available 24/7/ Confidential online instant messaging with a Trevor counselor, available 24/7.

For more on how the survey defines populist parties in Europe, see Appendix B. In general, people in wealthier and more developed economies are more accepting of homosexuality than are those in less wealthy and developed economies. This analysis focuses on whether people around the world think that homosexuality should be accepted by society or not.

General resources are also available. LGBT help is available for those going through gay-related challenges. The survey shows that while majorities in 16 of the 34 countries surveyed say homosexuality should be accepted by society, global divides remain.

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In both countries, just over half said they accepted homosexuality in , but now closer to seven-in-ten say this. And publics in the Asia-Pacific region generally are split. Homosexuality should be accepted by society OR Homosexuality should not be accepted by society.

For more on acceptance of homosexuality over time among all the countries surveyed, see Appendix A. In many of the countries surveyed, there also are differences on acceptance of homosexuality by age, education, income and, in some instances, gender — and in several cases, these differences are substantial.

India also saw a point increase since , the first time the question was asked of a nationally representative sample there.