Anti gay world leaders

And supporters of several right-wing populist parties in Europe are also less likely to see homosexuality as acceptable. Here are just a few of the political and religious figures who turned out to be closeted hypocrites. Homosexuality should be accepted by society OR Homosexuality should not be accepted by society.

There also have been fairly large shifts in acceptance of homosexuality over the past 17 years in two very different places: Mexico and Japan. Pew Research Center has been gathering data on acceptance of homosexuality in the U. However, while it took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 points from to just before the federal legalization of gay marriage in June , there was a near equal rise in acceptance in just the four years since legalization.

The question is a long-term trend, first asked in the U. Respondents did not get any further instructions on how to interpret the question and no significant problems were noted during the fielding of the survey. For more on how the survey defines populist parties in Europe, see Appendix B.

In general, people in wealthier and more developed economies are more accepting of homosexuality than are those in less wealthy and developed economies. People in the Asia-Pacific region show little consensus on the subject. saw 64 countries go to the polls to elect new governments, but the backlash against gay rights was harsh.

While acceptance has increased over the past two decades, the partisan divide on homosexuality in the U. On a regional basis, acceptance of homosexuality is highest in Western Europe and North America. The survey shows that while majorities in 16 of the 34 countries surveyed say homosexuality should be accepted by society, global divides remain.

You might also be interested in these lists of Republican and Democratic sex scandals over the years. But even with these sharp divides, views are changing in many of the countries that have been surveyed since , when Pew Research Center first began asking this question. These are among the major findings of a Pew Research Center survey conducted among 38, people in 34 countries from May 13 to Oct.

The study is a follow-up to a report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an increase in acceptance of homosexuality across many of the countries surveyed in both years. Many of the countries surveyed in and have seen a double-digit increase in acceptance of homosexuality.

This list features Republicans and Democrats against gay marriage. For more information on anti-gay politicians and activists, check out this list of the top 15 anti-gay activists caught being gay. As it was in , when the question was last asked, attitudes on the acceptance of homosexuality are shaped by the country in which people live.

In many countries, those on the political right are less accepting of homosexuality than those on the left. In the three Latin American countries surveyed, strong majorities say they accept homosexuality in society. This includes a point increase since in South Africa and a point increase in South Korea over the same time period.

This analysis focuses on whether people around the world think that homosexuality should be accepted by society or not. Photo: AP/Pavel Bednyakov Last year was a brutal year for LGBTQ rights around the world. India also saw a point increase since , the first time the question was asked of a nationally representative sample there.

For more on acceptance of homosexuality over time among all the countries surveyed, see Appendix A. In many of the countries surveyed, there also are differences on acceptance of homosexuality by age, education, income and, in some instances, gender — and in several cases, these differences are substantial.

In the U.S., more than a thousand queer people have become elected officials and government leaders, and there have been at least seven out LGBTQ heads of state globally. Political anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric was high as authoritarian leaders spewed hate in their bids to hold onto, or gain, power.

Despite major changes in laws and norms surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world , public opinion on the acceptance of homosexuality in society remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development.

Political ideology also plays a role in acceptance of homosexuality. In both countries, just over half said they accepted homosexuality in , but now closer to seven-in-ten say this. This is a function not only of economic development of nations, but also religious and political attitudes.

Who are the anti-gay politicians? For this report, we used data from a survey conducted across 34 countries from May 13 to Oct. In the Asia-Pacific region, face-to-face surveys were conducted in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, while phone surveys were administered in Australia, Japan and South Korea.

And publics in the Asia-Pacific region generally are split. Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and the survey methodology.