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Sunday, July 20
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Source: Washington Post , ABC News A poll released a week before Congress holds its first hearing on the policy in over a decade shows that public attitudes about gays in the military have shifted dramatically since President Bill Clinton unveiled what became his administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy 15 years ago this weekend. Three-quarters of Americans now support allowing gays to serve in the military, whether they "tell" or not -- much broader support than existed when the compromise policy was put in place. In 1993 fewer than half -- 44 percent --...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Press Enterprise , Sacramento Bee In a finding that could foreshadow a difficult political battle for a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage, a new Field Poll says more California voters oppose Proposition 8 than favor it. By a 51% to 42% margin, voters appear ready to vote No on Proposition 8, the "Limit on marriage" constitutional amendment. The new poll, released today, is the first independent statewide measure of public opinion on the proposed constitutional ban since gay men and lesbians began marrying legally in California on June 16. It was...
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Sunday, June 15
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Source: CBS News Most Americans -- 58% -- think there should be some legal recognition of gay and lesbian couples, according to a new poll commissioned by CBS News. The poll found that 30% favor full marriage equality while 28% think gay/lesbian couples should be able to form civil unions. CBS News says that is the highest favorable response rate for gay marriage since the network started taking the poll in 2004. Americans' views on this issue have changed since 2004, CBS News reports, although opinion has not changed substantially in the last two years. In November of 2004 (soon after the...
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Saturday, June 14
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Source: Great Falls Tribune , KULR-TV , KPAX-TV , Helena Independent Record Helena, Mont. -- A majority of Montanans favor protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination and passing legislation to do so, a new poll conducted by a human rights group finds. related in Qblog : 'Hate and violence are not Missoula values' The survey of 600 likely general election voters in the state was commissioned by the Montana Human Rights Network and conducted in March by by the Washington, D.C.-based Lake Research Partners. Almost 90% of those polled said that gay and lesbian employees should not be...
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Friday, June 13
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Source: Newsday , Long Island Catholic , NY1 , Catskill News NY marriage rulings Calling him "just plain wrong," Bishop William Murphy has blasted Gov. David A. Paterson for ordering state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, Newsday reports. In a column in The Long Island Catholic , Murphy said the governor "has decided to circumvent the legislature, the courts and any testing of the will of the people" when he issued the administrative order. The column was published along with a similar joint letter signed by eight New York bishops as...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: USA Today Six in 10 Americans say same-sex marriage is "strictly a private decision" between two people, according to a Gallup Poll conducted for USA Today . According to the paper, respondents were asked whether the decision to marry should "strictly be a private decision" between the two people who want to marry or if the government has the right to pass laws to "prohibit or allow" such marriages between two people. It's an odd survey question since civil marriage is a contractual matter governed by state law. It's not clear how the others think the...
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Wednesday, May 28
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case In a dramatic reversal of decades of public opinion, California voters agree by a slim majority that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry -- a finding that pollsters describe as a milestone driven by younger people. The Field Poll result, released today, shows the highest level of support in more than three decades of polling Californians on the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage laws. The poll found 51 percent of registered voters favor the idea of allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed, while 42 percent disapprove...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Source: Oakland Tribune CA marriage case Demographers and researchers who study gay and lesbian families and relationships predict that the first wave of couples who marry in the wake of the California Supreme Court decision will be drawn from the state's pool of registered domestic partners. And they will look a lot like the first couples who married in Massachusetts or entered civil unions in Vermont. They will be older, a group of well educated people whose ages average in their mid-40s. A majority will be women, many with children in tow. But the men taking their vows will typically have...
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Wednesday, May 21
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Source: Detroit Free Press , WZZM-TV , Detroit News DETROIT -- Michigan led the nation in 2007 with a 133 percent increase in reported anti-gay hate crimes over the previous year, according to statistics released Tuesday. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs report examined data from 2,430 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people across the country who reported being victims of hate crimes. Nationally, there was a 24 percent increase in reported anti-gay hate crimes. The figures for Michigan were compiled from reports to the Triangle Foundation. There were 226 reported incidents...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: Business Wire via EarthTimes WASHINGTON -- Nearly one in four gay and lesbian adults lack health insurance and are nearly twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to have no health insurance coverage, a recent survey finds. 22 percent of gay and lesbian survey respondents reported having no health insurance, compared to only 12 percent of heterosexual adults in the survey. "We know the problem of the uninsured has reached crisis proportions in this country and, unfortunately, this survey shows that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community is today at greater...
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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Hollywood Reporter , Marketing Charts , LOS ANGELES -- NBC Universal's Bravo emerged as the most "gay-friendly" company, according to a survey from Prime Access and PlanetOut . Four of the five top-ranked brands were from the media and technology sectors. Following Bravo were Apple, Showtime and HBO. Among gay consumers, Apple finished second with a 39 percent score, followed by Showtime (35 percent) and HBO (34 percent). The list was rounded about by nonmedia companies including Absolut, Levi's, American Express, and Starbucks. In contrast, Wal-Mart, Dunkin' Donuts...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: HRC press release , Associated Press Washington, DC -- Calling it "first step toward establishing a nationwide set of standards to reduce discrimination and ensure quality hospital-based health care," two LGBT advocacy groups yesterday released a report that rates hospitals on a set of standards of patient care for lesbian, gay, bi, or transgender Americans. The report was compiled by Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the nation’s LGBT civil rights organization, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association , the nation's largest association of GLBT healthcare professionals...
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Friday, May 09
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Source: Columbus Dispatch , Outlook Weekly , Stonewall Columbus press release Columbus, Ohio -- Gay, lesbian, bi, and trans residents of the Columbus metropolitan area are mostly healthy, in committed relationships and happy with central Ohio's social scene. But they also report high levels of depression, face threats because of their sexual orientation and, often suffer discrimination in the workplace. Those are some of the highlights from a first-ever survey of LGBT residents of central Ohio, Columbus Dispatch reports. The findings show that Columbus, although known as a gay-friendly city...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , BusinessWire (press release) For gays who have traditionally been on the cutting edge of tech -- we have long-been cited as early adopters of technology observes market researchers like Forrester -- the reading of blogs on a regular basis has become de rigueur , a necessary component for being in the know. When asked, just over half (51 percent) of the gay and lesbian respondents reported reading some type of blog, compared to 36 percent of heterosexual adults. A similar question on blog readership also was asked in November 2006, and at that time 32 percent of gay...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: The Guardian , PinkNews , Fyne Times A major survey was released this week in London that shows Britain's 3.6 million lesbian, gay and bisexual people see themselves confronted by huge barriers of prejudice at every level of society. The poll, commissioned by the equality charity Stonewall, which said some public bodies were too "smug" about their record on discrimination, indicates that the schoolyard is the most entrenched bastion of prejudice. The YouGov poll of 1,658 gay adults found homophobic bullying in schools is more prevalent now than in previous decades. Around...
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Monday, March 03
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Source: Des Moines Register Iowa’s gay marriage controversy is expected to heat up again Tuesday when a Republican lawmaker will attempt a rarely-used House rule in an attempt to force legislative debate on the issue. “We have to do it now or this issue is done,” said House Minority Leader Christopher Rants, a Sioux City Republican said this morning. “We’re going to see (gay) marriages take place in Iowa. Iowa’s going to be the sort of the Las Vegas of America because we have no residency requirement and we’ll have (gay) people from all across the country coming to Iowa to get married.” Democratic...
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Monday, March 03
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Source: San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case As the gay marriage issue returns to center stage in California, same-sex registered partners have a direct personal stake in the issue. A look at the growing body of data on these couples shows a group that is larger in California than in any other state, and -- perhaps not surprisingly -- that looks more similar to married heterosexual couples in terms of affluence, parenthood and other social measures. A recent state survey of California's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population primarily done to assess tobacco use also found that...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Canadian Press and Canada.com OTTAWA - Gays, lesbians and bisexuals reported higher rates of victimization by violence than heterosexuals in 2004 - including sexual assault, robbery and physical assault. The Statistics Canada study examined victimization rates, perceptions of discrimination, fear of crime and attitudes toward the justice system among gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The odds of being victimized by violence were nearly two times greater for gays and lesbians and 4.5 times greater for bisexuals than they were for heterosexuals. Similar studies have indicated some factors typical...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: AScribe (press release) and PinkNews According to a new poll, only 22 percent of U.S. military officers believe that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly as a fix for recent recruiting shortfalls. The poll, conducted by the Center for a New American Security and by the journal Foreign Policy, was administered in December, 2007 and January, 2008 to 3,437 active duty and retired officers at or above the rank of major or lieutenant commander. According to Dr. Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, "these new data are consistent with other surveys which show that among...
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Friday, February 22
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Source: Harris Interactive press release and Marketing Charts When why they might switch their auto insurance from one company to another, a third (33%) of self-identified gays and lesbians said that offering domestic partner benefits to its employees would be one of their top three reasons they would change providers and take their business to another insurance carrier. Gays and lesbians are also twice as likely as heterosexuals to purchase their automotive insurance online, according to the study of auto, life and homeowner’s/renter’s insurance by Harris Interactive in conjunction with Witeck...
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Thursday, February 14
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Source: Belfast Telegraph and GCN.ie , GCN.ie Dublin -- Campaigners for gay civil marriage rights were due to mount a demonstration at the Dail (parliament) this afternoon demanding equality for same-sex couples. The campaign group LGBT Noise planned to deliver a giant 6 foot Valentine’s Card to the Taoiseach (prime minister) demanding equal marriage rights for all citizens, regardless of their sexuality. Members of Noise said that they would be flanked by "two human bouquets" as they present the card to Bertie Ahern. It contains about 1000 Valentine’s poems messages from members of the...
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Wednesday, February 06
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Source: Advocate , Hunter College press release , and msnbc Among many historic events last night, one news organizations decided gays, lesbians, and bisexuals exist and asked them to identify as such in the exits polls. A solid majority of those polled preferred that Sen. Hillary Clinton be their next president. NBC exit polling found that among the 4% of California voters who identified as GLB, 63% voted for Clinton, 29% for Obama, and 1% for Edwards. In New York , 7% of voters self-identified as GLB and 59% voted for Clinton, 36% for Obama, and 3% for Edwards. New York and California were the...
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: Baltimore Sun As the General Assembly gears up for a debate on the rights of gay couples, a solid majority of Maryland voters supports some form of legalized same-sex unions, according to a recent Sun poll. Nineteen percent of likely voters said they support gay marriage, and 39 percent said they back civil unions, meaning that nearly three out of five believe the state should formally recognize same-sex relationships. Maryland law bans same-sex marriage. Thirty-one percent of those polled said they disagree with granting either form of same-sex unions, but only half of those opponents...
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Wednesday, January 02
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Source: The Advocate More than two thirds of older lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults say they have provided care to one or more people in the past five years, according to a study published in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services. Those who were helped were suffering from HIV/AIDS, cancer, muscular/skeletal illnesses, cardiovascular disease, or other afflictions associated with aging, according to the Rockway Institute. Thirty-eight percent of the survey participants reported to have received care within the past five years from people who weren't health care professionals. Of the...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: international.ibox.bg 80% of Bulgarians have negative attitude to homosexual people, says data of ‘Skala' agency survey. The research, which examined the discriminative adjustments of Bulgarian nation, was conducted on September 10-30, this year, Darik Radio informed. 53% of the inquired Bulgarians have extremely negative attitude towards gays. 17% declared that can freely communicate with person homosexually orientated. Most clearly are expressed the prejudices to transsexuals, most weakly to gay women, shows the research. Almost half of the inquired would not work with homosexuals...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: PinkNews While the Hungarian parliament passed new laws this week legalising same-sex civil partnerships, an opinion poll for a national newspaper found little support for the measure among the voters. The Nepszabadsag survey found that only 12 percent of Hungarians think same-sex relationships are completely normal. 60 percent condemn homosexuality and 30 percent disapprove of gay people. The new law will apply to both heterosexual and gay and lesbian couples, and there is widespread support for civil partners having the same rights as married couples - 71 percent of respondents agreed...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: The Advocate A new poll of lesbian, gay, and bisexual voters, conducted by Hunter College, has found that 63% of LGB likely voters in the Democratic primaries say they will support Sen. Hillary Clinton, while 22% are backing Sen. Barack Obama, and 7% will vote for John Edwards. The poll also found that about 75% of the respondents said they are likely to vote in the primaries, suggesting that LGB voters are much more politically involved than the general population. “That’s an unusually high percentage, it’s just huge,” Hunter College professor Kenneth Sherrill, one of the study’s investigators...
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Thursday, November 29
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Source: Daily Telegraph via News.com.au A UNION has raised concerns about the Australian bank, ANZ, asking its employees to identify their sexual orientation and religion in a survey. ANZ is one of the largest financial institutions in Australia with branch commercial banks throughout the country and other financial services including ANZ E*Trade brokerage house. The bank's My Difference survey asks staff to tick if they are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transgender or other. Employees are also quizzed if they are comfortable discussing their sexual orientation with managers. They have...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: Washington Blade Polling experts are questioning a recent Human Rights Campaign survey that asked gays about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The survey’s results, circulated last month by HRC when many gays were locked in heated debate over the measure’s lack of transgender protections, show most people who responded support the bill as written. But John Stahura, who specializes in survey research and directs the Purdue University Social Research Institute, said the survey’s methodology is problematic. “They’re playing games,” he said after reviewing survey excerpts at the Blade...
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Tuesday, November 27
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Source: Indianapolis Star Support among Hoosiers for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage appears to be on the decline, according to an Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll. The poll, based on the responses of 600 people statewide, found that 49 percent of Hoosiers supported the amendment. That number is down from 56 percent in a March 2005 survey by The Star. Of the respondents, 44 percent said they opposed a constitutional ban, up from 40 percent in 2005. Earlier this year, the Indiana Senate passed the constitutional ban, but the amendment was voted down in a House...
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