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New poll reveals landscape of gay Canada
New poll reveals landscape of gay CanadaKyle Rae remembers a time when many Canadians took the question "Do you know someone who is gay?" to mean "Do you know a child molester?" Even after the pedophilia misconception wore off, he said most Canadians would have answered "no," either because the community was so closeted or because straight Canadians preferred to turn a blind eye and pretend there was not a gay in their midst.
Mr. Rae, who became Toronto's first openly gay city councillor in 1991, is gob smacked at how Canadians respond to the same question today: 74% say they know someone who is what is now inclusively summed up as LGBT   lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
That is one of the findings of a new poll zeroing in on this country's gay landscape, and the survey is believed to be the most comprehensive snapshot ever   the "best estimate to date," the lead pollster says   of a community that has so far mostly eluded Canadian statisticians.
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The Forum Research poll, commissioned by the National Post and taken twice in June to confirm its accuracy, found that 5% of Canadians identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. And contrary to the popular wisdom that the same sex marriage rate is surprisingly low,moncler outlet, the poll found that a third of LGBT people say they are in a same sex marriage.
"Social scientists have never been able to pin down how many Canadians are LGBT, but we believe this is the best estimate to date," said Lorne Bozinoff, president of the polling firm. "This is something people want to know; they're curious. And now is the time to measure it: people are less reluctant to answer the question, so we can actually ask it."
Statistics Canada says on its website it "has neither the definitive number of people whose sexual orientation is lesbian, gay, bisexual, nor the number of people who are transgender." The statistical agency asked the question in 2009,doudoune moncler femme, but sociologists cautioned the rate is likely under reported because some gays are suspicious of how the government will use the data or are offended Ottawa would even ask.
That 2009 survey found 2% of Canadians aged 18 59 said they are gay,uggs sverige, lesbian, or bisexual   a full 8% lower than the "one in 10" truism that has circulated since 1948, when American biologist Alfred Kinsey pronounced that 10% of all men are gay. Gary Kinsman,ugg bambina, a Laurentian University sociologist and leading Canadian expert on sexuality issues, said the new Forum poll will undoubtedly provoke contestation from both the gay community, which will say the rate is under reported and far too low, and social conservatives,moncler outlet, ''who will argue the results are somehow bogus and too high."
But Forum's 5% figure jibes with the latest number out of the United States, where a University of California Los Angeles think tank last year found 4% of Americans are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. in producing a more comprehensive snapshot of its gay community.
"I think this survey will prove useful for demographers and anyone who is tracking public opinion on sexuality   on the relationship between knowing someone who is LGBT identified and support for LGBT issues," said Mr. Ghaziani, an expert in the sociology of sexuality who is working on a book about gay neighbourhoods.
My generation didn't come out until at least university. Today, people are coming out in high school, if not grade school
The results emerge in the same week that CNN personality Anderson Cooper revealed he is gay, prompting media pundits and journalists to ask an unprecedented question: Does it even matter anymore? With 74% of Canadians saying they know someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, 28% saying someone in their family is LGBT,ugg romania, and two thirds saying they support gay marriage, Mr. Ghaziani said we seem to be entering a "post gay" era where gays are less likely to identify themselves by their sexuality and where so called gaybourhoods are unraveling because the community is increasingly intermingling with the straight population.
Still, he cautioned that while gays are "disentangling gayness from militancy and struggle," it would be a mistake to say Canada is void of discrimination. Scott Brison, the Liberal Party's only gay MP, said in an interview he recently encountered a "young guy who was demonstrating bravado by making anti gay comments to me in front of his friends."
But the new Forum poll reveals much about Canada's gay community and how the community interacts with straight Canadians, at times confirming what was widely believed true and other times offering fresh insight on how age,moncler outlet, gender, income and region can affect a person's experience with the gay community.
Younger Canadians are far more likely to say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender than older Canadians, with 10% of those aged 18 to 34 answering the question with a "yes," compared to 2% or 3% in the four older age categories.
"My generation didn't come out until at least university," said Mr. Rae, 58. "Today, people are coming out in high school, if not grade school."
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Canadians living in Manitoba or Saskatchewan and in Alberta are least likely to know someone who is lesbian, gay,ugg ieftine, bisexual or transgender   the rate is about 70% in those three provinces   and are by far less likely to have someone in their family who is LGBT. Mr. Bozinoff said that might be a symptom of migration, a case of non heterosexuals having left for cities with larger gay populations such as Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal.
People living in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were also the least supportive of same sex marriage, with Alberta standing out as the only province in Canada where the majority of those polled say they do not support gay marriage. That is proof,manteaux moncler femme, University of Toronto professor Adam Isaiah Green said, of the so called contact hypothesis, that says with less interaction comes less acceptance of the gay community.
Arguably the most complex demographic captured in the Forum poll is lower income Canadians: They are less likely to know someone who is gay or someone who is in a same sex marriage, they are least likely to support same sex marriage, but they are by far the most likely to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender themselves. That could be a correlation with age because younger Canadians tend to earn less, and that group is less likely to know married people generally and are more likely to say they are gay.
But Mr. Ghaziani thinks another factor is at play: "Think of it this way, 'In what types of industries are [lower income Canadians] working?' If it's blue collar jobs, like construction or factory work,moncler daunenmäntel, then it seems intuitive that those would be industries where LGBT people would be more reluctant to come out," he said. "It's not really about how much money you make, but how much money you make says something about what kind of job you have, and what what kind of job you have says something about the willingness of people to be out."
The Forum poll also revealed differences along political lines, particularly that Liberal voters are closer to Conservatives than the other three parties on several fronts, Mr. Bozinoff said. Conservative and Liberal voters were tied on whether they know someone who is lesbian, gay,ugg boots uk on sale, bisexual or transsexual, at 69%,ugg, compared to NDP,moncler jacken, Green and Bloc Qubcois voters, at 81%, 83% and 84%, respectively. Asked whether they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, Liberal voters were least likely to say "yes," at just 1%, whereas 3% of Conservative voters answered "yes." Compare that to Canada's three newer parties   the NDP,ugg bottes soldes, Green and Bloc   with rates ranging from 7% to 10%.
Conservative voters were by far the least supportive of same sex marriage, with a 45.8% approval rate, while Liberals were behind them at 68.1%. Approval jumped to 77.6% among Bloc voters, 79.8% among NDP voters, and 85.1% among Greens.
"I can't, for the life of me, understand why a gay politician today wouldn't come out," he said, adding that his sexual orientation rarely comes up in the media or elsewhere, unless he is specifically speaking on the issue. "It's about as likely to be mentioned as my eye colour."
Mr. Bozinoff said while it is true that Canadians are increasingly open about their sexuality, the polling firm used what is called Interactive Voice Response or IVR, a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans over the phone. Canadian phone numbers were jumbled in the computer, which randomly dialed 2,694 people on June 14 and June 27.
 
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