{"id":3640,"date":"2018-07-09T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","slug":"pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/07\/09\/pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alissresearch.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/pride-in-london-why-iit-still-matters.html\">Pride in London &#8211; why it still matters.<\/a><br \/>\nThis week we <a href=\"https:\/\/prideinlondon.org\/\">celebrated Pride in London.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is it still necessary today?<br \/>\nIn 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcen.ac.uk\/blog\/charting-changing-attitudes-%E2%80%93-same-sex-relationships\">NatCen analysed public opinion towards same sex relationships<\/a>\u00a0 charting\u00a0 greater acceptance than in the past.<br \/>\nIn 1987, at the height of the AIDS crisis, those who agreed that same-sex relationships were \u201cnot wrong at all\u201d were in the minority (11%). Two thirds (64%) said that they were \u201calways wrong\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Now\u00a0 thankfully attitudes are much better however,<\/p>\n<p>This week the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-lgbt-survey-summary-report\">Government Equalities office published\u00a0a national LGBT survey\u00a0<\/a>which continued to reveal problems.\u00a0 As a result they have launched an action plan<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/lgbt-action-plan-2018-improving-the-lives-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-people\">LGBT Action Plan<\/a> that sets out what steps the government will take in response to the survey findings.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking headline findings included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than two thirds of LGBT respondents said they had avoided holding hands with a same-sex partner for fear of a negative reaction from others<\/li>\n<li>At least 2 in 5 respondents had experienced an incident because they were LGBT, such as verbal harassment or physical violence, in the 12 months preceding the survey.\u00a0 However, more than 9 in 10 of the most serious incidents went unreported, often because respondents thought \u2018it happens all the time\u2019<\/li>\n<li>two percent of respondents had undergone conversion or reparative therapy in an attempt to \u2018cure\u2019 them of being LGBT, and a further 5% had been offered it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/our-work\/blog\/government-action-plan-welcome-first-step\">Stonewall reaction to the news.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stonewall\u00a0also launched a report this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/lgbt-britain-home-and-communities\">Half of BAME LGBT people (51%) face<\/a> discrimination within the LGBT community.\u00a0 Browse their website for examples of research and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/our-work\/stonewall-research\">surveys relating to attitudes and discrimination faced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fra.europa.eu\/en\/theme\/lgbti\">FRA has examples of news<\/a> and surveys which reveal the extent of discrimination faced in EU nations.<br \/>\nThere continue to be many countries worldwide where to be gay is illegal &#8211; see the map and summaries of legislation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.org\/maps-sexual-orientation-laws\">ILGA website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LGBT images:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lselibrary\/sets\/72157677631429890\/\">LSE Archives has an online exhibition <\/a>of images from early gay pride marches on its flickr library<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/library\/collections\/collection-highlights\/lgbt-collections\">the archive and library collections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, welcome to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wearinggayhistory.com\/about\">Wearing Gay History, digitized t-shirt collections of LGBT archives across USA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride in London &#8211; why it still matters. This week we celebrated Pride in London. Why is it still necessary today? In 2017 NatCen analysed public opinion towards same sex relationships\u00a0 charting\u00a0 greater acceptance than in the past. 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