[lbo-talk] Gallup on homosex

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 1 15:33:11 PDT 2003


Michael Pugliese wrote:


>progress, compared to what a similiar poll would have shown, in
>every decade past. Probably 73% would have said the same, two
>decades ago

THere are plenty of numbers in the Gallup release: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030627.asp>. You don't have to guess. Opinion was evenly divided at 43% in 1977; got worse (i.e., more homophobic) in the mid-1980s, but took a turn for the better in the mid-1990s.

Doug



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