Londoners least accepting of gays

[Alty]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/03/1...-likely-to-accept-a-gay-or-transgender-child/

Nice to know I live in the most homophobic part of Britain.

Thoughts?

 

[HertsWolf]

Genuinely surprised by the results that London is least accepting.

 

[smat]

"1,683 adults" tho.

 

[Stevencc]

Yeah that's not much of a sample size.

 

[Alty]

True. Differences are quite stark though. 1% vs 12%?

 

[Pagnell]

Regarding the thread title and the linked article, is there a difference between accepting gay people (as per the thread title) and accepting your own child being gay (as per the article)?

 

[Alty]

Regarding the thread title and the linked article, is there a difference between accepting gay people (as per the thread title) and accepting your own child being gay (as per the article)?

No problem with gays unless my child is one?

 

[SUTSS]

I'd imagine that is because of the high immigrant population in London, especially immigrants from Africa and the Middle East.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

No problem with gays unless my child is one?

The difference between theory and practice. I can sleep fairly soundly knowing that the likes of Lukey are out there, at large in the world. I can tolerate that fact. If my imaginary offspring brought one to dinner though? No. Fuck no.

 

[Son of Cod]

Northerners are probably more accepting of transgender individuals because the girls are uglier up there.

 

[Pagnell]

No problem with gays unless my child is one?

Unfortunately, I suspect quite a few people have that precise opinion of homosexuality.

 

[AtaturkOzgutson]

I always have a problem with surveys like this. One for the small sample size and another for how things are broken up.

London has over 10m people; a sample taken from the Bangladeshis of Tower Hamlet will differ massively from the sailor boys in SoHo and they're just a few miles apart.

Likewise, saying ''the North'' or ''Scotland''. I live within 2 miles of probably one of the leading gay districts in the country, and I nor many of my gay friends have reported anything even vaguely homophobic. Go 3 miles the other direction and take a sample from the overspill estates and the answer would probably not look the same.

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

I'd take this with a fairly significant pinch of salt. You have to be pretty wary about regional crossbreaks in polls. If the sample size is low then there's a very large margin of error. It would be interesting to see the full datasets.

I think London is also quite exceptional. It's a diverse, sprawling metropolis; a very gay-friendly city in a great many respects and home to a large LGBT community, but it's also got a disproportionately large migrant community, and we know that many within those communities possess very conservative values. Difficult to draw too many meaningful conclusions, I'd say.

 

[Red]

Fair point. I had a friend from Libya and asked him how gays were treated there. His answer was that there were no gays in Libya.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]