Attitudes toward gay

Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. The use of such parallel forms with each item presented once in reference to gay men and once in reference to lesbians is now recommended for all ATLG scale users. Support for same-sex marriage has risen among both men and women in recent years. These are also among the richest countries in the world. For this reason, the data from China has been removed from the current version of the report, re-released in May

A new perspective on the functional approach to attitudes. Attitudes toward lesbians and gay men: The possible range of scores depends on the response scale used. Opinions about homosexuality are also positive in parts of Latin America. Mexicans and Chinese ages are more likely than those in each of the other two age groups to offer positive views of homosexuality, but there is no significant difference between the views of year-olds and those 50 or older. Among people who are religiously unaffiliated, a solid majority have supported same-sex marriage since In most of the countries surveyed, views of homosexuality do not differ significantly between men and women.

For more information on other religious groups or state-by state data, please see our Religious Landscape Study. Attitudes of university students toward lesbians and gay men in Turkey. Journal of Sex Research, 28 , Age differences are particularly evident in South Korea, Japan, and Brazil, where those younger than 30 are more accepting than those ages who, in turn, are more accepting than those ages 50 and older. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. For ease of interpretation, the sum of item values can be divided by the total number of items to yield a score that matches the response scale metric.