Survey: LGBT Adults See Acceptance But Also Discrimination

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/14/survey-lgbt-adults-see-acceptance-but-also-discrimination

everyone who reads my column knows i'm for LGBT rights and still am, but c'mon are the strides made already not enough, the other ethnic groups not White are still after decades waiting again to be able to vote.

it's coming but a rush to total equality among those who hate are not going to change anytime soon, and as long as they vote them in or they gerrymander that wait may be awhile.  beats the hell out of 13 years. if you are just noticing discrimination you better ask somebody. recognize

2014 is the time to create more speed, if you want c'mon get it.

Americans have grown dramatically more accepting of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in recent years, but America's LGBT population is still far from feeling entirely accepted, both by society and those closest to them.

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That's a key finding from a new survey of the LGBT population by the Pew Research Center. Of a sample of nearly 1,200 LGBT adults, the survey finds that 92 percent say society is more accepting of them now than 10 years ago, and the same percentage expect society to be yet more accepting 10 years down the road. 

Yet LGBT Americans clearly also see many barriers to fitting into American society. While a majority, 59 percent, of LGBT adults say there is "some" acceptance of the LGBT population, only 19 percent say there is a lot of social acceptance. Nearly the same share, 21 percent, say there is "little or no" acceptance.

"This population obviously recognizes the change that's going on around them in terms of attitudes towards them, and there's a very positive recognition of that," says Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center. "But balancing into that is as we asked about the lives they've led, their perceptions of discrimination and stigma, they're pretty sharp."

 Those perceptions of discrimination stretch across all areas of life, from careers to religion to personal safety. By far, perceived anti-LGBT discrimination most commonly comes in the form of jokes and slurs, which 58 percent of LGBT adults say they have experienced. 

with republica rule we all are waiting and that's just in the house, give them the keys to 1600 Penn. ave, and really hurry up and wait.  being thankful for what you've got thus far is a blessing and helps endure the jurney.