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Growing Support for Gay and Lesbian Equality Since 1990

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ID3629359
AuthorsAlison Keleher (a Department of Political Science , California Polytechnic University , San Luis Obispo , California , USA), Eric R A N Smith (0000-0003-3168-5463, b Department of Political Science , University of California , Santa Barbara , California , USA)
Year2012
Volume59
Issue9
Pages1307-1326
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2012.720540
PMID23101499
OpenAlexW2021551894
LanguageEN
Citations received92
References cited24

Since 1991, public acceptance of gays and lesbians has grown dramatically. We use two approaches to examine changing attitudes in U.S. survey data. First, we conduct cohort analyses showing that both generational replacement and period effects are having impacts. Since 1991, older, less accepting generations of Americans have been dying and being replaced by younger, more tolerant Americans, and all age groups have been becoming more tolerant. Second, we pool cross-sectional, time series survey data to show that there has been a broad, dramatic increase in virtually every group's acceptance of gays and lesbians over time

Cohort · Homosexuality · Lesbian · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Public relations · Public support · Sociology · Survey data collection · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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