U.S. straights becoming more tolerant

A new L.A. Times poll shows straights becoming much more accepting of queers, over the past twenty years in the USA.

This attitude improvement is generational. Young adults (18-29) are much more favorable to queers than elders (65+) are, on average. So future demographic changes favor increasing acceptance. (Note carefully: This generalization refers only to huge classes of people, not to individuals. Old liberals and progressives do exist, and so do young fascists.)

Nationwide, around one quarter of Yanks say same-sex marriage should be allowed. Another 38% approve of Vermont-style civil unions for same-sex couples, but not marriages per se. On the extreme right, 34% wouldn't even allow civil unions.

On marriage issues, Massachusetts voters express more progressive views.
[For details, please see Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/ ]


For much more on the L.A. Times poll, please see:
"Times Poll: Stigma Against Gays Fading, Survey Finds,"
by Elizabeth Mehren, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 2004 (Sunday edition).
[ http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-adna-gaypoll11apr11,1,1578845.story?coll=la-home-headlines ]


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P.S. Here are
SAN FRANCISCO events,
April 10-11-12:

CAL: SF: 10 April, Sat.: 12 noon: SF anti-war march & rally, starting at United Nations Plaza, near Market and 7th Streets. Near Civic Center BART/Muni station.
(IF you attend, please bring equal-rights signs.)


*CAL: SF: 10 April , Sat: drum circle, Hippy Hill, Golden Gate Park, around 3pm. Free. Informal.
[Hippy Hill is part of Sharon Meadow. Walk into GG Park from Haight & Stanyan.
From downtown SF, take bus 71, streetcar N-Judah, etc.; get off at Stanyan.)



*CAL: SF: 11 April: Easter Sunday with The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Dolores Park, starting around 11 AM. Free. [http://www.thesisters.org ]



*CAL: San Francisco: Monday, 12 April, noon -1pm:
MarriageEqualityCA rally, on steps of CA Supreme Court,
300 McAllister Street (across from SF City Hall):
marking one month since the high court
ordered SF officials to stop issuing same-sex mariage licenses.

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