{"id":2030,"date":"2015-05-26T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","slug":"homophobia-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/05\/26\/homophobia-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophobia- the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/old.ilga.org\/Statehomophobia\/ILGA_WorldMap_2015.pdf\">According to ILGA in\u00a0 2014<\/a> there were still 78 nations where same sex sexual acts between adults in private were illegal<strong>. <\/strong>This compared to 113 UN nations where they\u00a0were legal.<a href=\"http:\/\/ilga.org\/worldwide-legislation\/\">\u00a0 Use the interactive maps<\/a> on the website to get the full listing or download the<a href=\"http:\/\/old.ilga.org\/Statehomophobia\/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2015.pdf\"> 2014 state-sponsored Homophobia report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/old.ilga.org\/documents\/RIWI_ILGA_Report_Marriage.pdf\">many countries acceptance of same-sex marriage remains\u00a0 low<\/a>&#8211; ILGA recently released the results of a survey of over 50,000 people.\u00a0 Shockingly it found that 76% o in\u00a0 Ghana, 73% in Russia opposed gay marriage.\u00a0 In general where it was illegal acceptance was lower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outnowconsulting.com\/media\/1332\/Idaho-discrimination-report-global-V7.pdf\">Out Now Global LGBT2020<\/a> study into the life experiences\u00a0of people in LGBT communities globally, provides insight into discrimination.\u00a0 In the UK, only 52% of respondents said that they felt able to be \u2018out to everyone\u2019 at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ILGA in\u00a0 2014 there were still 78 nations where same sex sexual acts between adults in private were illegal. This compared to 113 UN nations where they\u00a0were legal.\u00a0 Use the interactive maps on the website to get the full listing or download the 2014 state-sponsored Homophobia report In many countries acceptance of same-sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-sociology","tag-gay-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}