Conventional wisdom goes: The young will lead when it comes to matters of tolerance and acceptance regardless of race, color, creed — or sexual orientation. But according to GLAAD, that conventional wisdom has been turned on its head, and Donald Trump is to blame.
GLAAD’s fifth annual Accelerating Acceptance Index, conducted by the Harris polling firm, found that when it came to seven key areas indicative of acceptance of LGBTQ people, the 18-to-34-year-old demographic was the only one to drop in the level of acceptance, the Daily Beast reports.
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As the Daily Beast explained, the study looked at seven “acceptance levels”:
learning a family member is LGBT, learning one’s doctor is LGBT, having LGBT members at one’s place of worship, seeing an LGBT co-worker’s wedding picture, having one’s child placed in a class with a LGBT teacher, seeing a same-sex couple holding hands, and learning one’s child has a lesson on LGBT history in school.
Among 18-to-34-year-olds, the GLAAD survey found that the percentage of those who said they were “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in the seven situations dropped from 53 percent in 2018 to 45 percent this year, according to the Daily Beast.
Source: In the Donald Trump Era, People Ages 18-34 Are Less Accepting of LGBTQ Community, GLAAD Finds
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