Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Tags: stonewall, united kingdom, u.k., britons, support, majority, marriage equality, same sex, gay, faith, religion, weddings, polls, studies, surveys, europe
EuroPride 2012 organizers may have hit the jackpot by selecting London as the host city for this year's major festivities: according to a new poll from YouGov and released by Stonewall, attendees will be embraced by a population that overwhelmingly supports marriage equality!
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 11 June 2012
Tags: pray the gay away, ex gay, conversion, therapy, focus on the family, james johnston, hrc, lgbt youth, studies
Reminding us of just how disconnected from reality "ex gay" promoters truly are, Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston reacted to the recent HRC study on LGBT youth by claiming that "praying the gay away" will save kids from depression and suicide.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 31 May 2012
Tags: hate crimes, violence, studies, rates, statistics, research, violent crimes, anti-gay, lgbt, murders, rise, 2011
Anti-gay violence declined in 2011, according to the annual report on hate crime statistics by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, but anti-LGBT murders increased. What gives?
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tags: gaydar, studies, science, university of washington, joshua tabak, works better, women, men, gay, straight, lgbt
Any hopes of fine-tuning our Gaydar to make for less awkward moments at the gym have been dashed by a new study out of the University of Washington.
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Tags: williams institute, gay men, fbi crime, statistics, studies, reports, violent, physical, hate crimes, higher rates, lesbians, bisexuals, lgbt, jewish, religion, black, race Separating the LGBT acronym in its analysis of FBI crime statistics for the first time has given the Williams Institute and the gay community a stark look at how gay men are disproportionately victimized by physically violent hate crimes.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Tags: polls, surveys, studies, gallup, america, religion, age, class, marriage equality, same sex, trend, gay marriage, support, majority, finds
Even as a president is outpaced along the evolutionary timeline by a vice president and as North Carolinians have to vote on enshrining redundant homophobia further into the state's law, the trend of Americans supporting civil equality continues federally, according to a new poll released today from Gallup.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 30 April 2012
Tags: new york times, science, research, studies, homophobes, most likely gay themselves, homosexuality, self hating, internalized, lgbt
Another day, another study comes out finding that the most vocal anti-gay activists are probably self-hating gays themselves. Published Sunday in the New York Times, Richard M. Ryan and William S. Ryan discuss the study they conducted that revealed the sexual orientation of social homophobes.
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Tags: think progress, bullying, duke university, violence, children, dna, telomeres, rapid aging, disease, physical effects, anti-gay, lgbt youth, studies, science
We've long known that bullying can lead reek mental damage on victims. But researchers from Duke University have found that it can also affect a victim's genes, causing health problems later in life.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tags: pew research, new, poll, numbers studies, marriage equality, americans, u.s., support, same sex, gay, national, 2004
Another day, another trustworthy poll finds that the inevitable tide of change is in favor of love. Follow the jump for the statistics revealed in the latest poll from Pew Research with 85 percent less kumbaya sass from our fingertips...
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Tags: science, studies, beauty, best side, left side, brain science, vanity
To all the paparazzi we imagine follow our every step: please only photograph our left side profile from this point forward. Sure, we joked a lot about getting on our "good sides," but now our good friend science has corroborated what we have long known: the left side is the most beautiful—for all humans!
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 19 April 2012
Tags: millennials, studies, research, polls, public religion polling, values, morals, marriage equality, same sex, gay, rights, majority, support, results, statistics
A new poll from Public Religion Polling echoes results from previous surveys finding that a majority of American Millennials (young adults age 18 - 24) support marriage equality.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 16 April 2012
Tags: polls, surveys, studies, latino, community, hispanic, marriage equality, support, majority, lgbt, gay, same sex
The National Organization for Marriage's infamous race baiting tactics might have all been in vain, according to a new report from the National Council of La Raza and Social Science Research Solutions. Details follow.
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