California was once at the forefront of support for LGBTQ+ people. A new poll finds that views in California now match those of Americans across the nation.
As the state with the largest LGBTQ+ population, and one that's been shaped by the liberal politics of Los Angeles and San Francisco, California has long been at the forefront of progressive policies and popular support for the rights of transgender residents and the cultural acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. But the rest of the country has largely caught up with residents of the Golden State on backing LGBTQ+ Americans, a new survey conducted for The Times finds.
at the University of Chicago and paid for by the California Endowment, followed up on a groundbreaking nationwide survey The Times did nearly 40 years ago, at a time when the emergence of HIV and AIDS led to massive discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. At that time, more than 40% of Los Angeles and San Francisco residents said nothing was wrong with lesbian and gay people living as they chose, but a large majority of Americans overall saw homosexuality as morally wrong.
senior research director Dan Malato, comparing results from the 1985 survey with this year's polling. Malato said the polling data did not pinpoint the reasons for the shift, but he suggested the fact that more people openly identify as LGBTQ+ today may play a role. 'More people say they know a gay or lesbian person now than in 1985, and we also see separately that there is a correlation between knowing an LGBTQ person more broadly and being more accepting,' Malato said.
conducted this poll in January using its AmeriSpeak panel, a probability-based panel designed to reflect U.S. households overall. The poll surveyed 1,624 adults — including 775 Californians and 313 LGBTQ+ people — and was weighted to match benchmarks for age, gender, census division, race and ethnicity, and education. It had an estimated margin of error of 3.8 percentage points for the full sample.
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