Black-white differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and gay rights
Black-white differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and gay rights
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DOI：
10.1086/346009
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发表时间：
2003-03-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lewis, GB
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作者：
Lewis, GB
黑人同性恋恐惧症被认为是非洲裔美国人社区减缓艾滋病动员的一个因素，是黑人男女同性恋者接受自己性取向的障碍，也是对同性恋权利运动合法性的挑战。然而，黑人比白人更厌恶同性恋的证据相当有限。本文使用了自1973年以来进行的31次调查中近7000名黑人和43000名白人的回答，对黑人和白人的态度差异及其人口根源给出了更明确的答案。尽管黑人更不赞成同性恋，但他们对鸡奸法、同性恋公民自由和就业歧视的看法与白人的看法相当相似，非洲裔美国人更有可能支持禁止反同性恋歧视的法律。一旦宗教和教育差异得到控制，黑人仍然更不赞成同性恋，但比白人更支持同性恋公民自由，更反对反同性恋就业歧视。然而，宗教、教育、性别和年龄对黑人态度的影响都弱于对白色态度的影响，这表明黑人和白色态度有不同的根源。
Black homophobia has been cited as a contributing factor in slowing mobilization against AIDS in the African-American community, as an obstacle to black lesbians and gay men in coming to terms with their sexuality, and as a challenge to the legitimacy of the gay rights movement. Yet evidence that blacks are more homophobic than whites is quite limited. This article uses responses from almost seven thousand blacks and forty-three thousand whites in 31 surveys conducted since 1973 to give more definitive answers on black-white attitudinal differences and their demographic roots. Despite their greater disapproval of homosexuality, blacks' opinions on sodomy laws, gay civil liberties, and employment discrimination are quite similar to whites' opinions, and African Americans are more likely to support laws prohibiting antigay discrimination. Once religious and educational differences are controlled, blacks remain more disapproving of homosexuality but are moderately more supportive of gay civil liberties and markedly more opposed to antigay employment discrimination than are whites. Yet religion, education, gender, and age all have weaker impacts on black than on white attitudes, suggesting that black and white attitudes have different roots.