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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Alberta isn’t much different from other provinces when it comes to attitudes around LGBTQ issues.
People who identify as LGBTQ are choosing to be LGBTQ (as opposed to born with that identity):
Alberta 22 per cent
B.C. 22
Ontario 21
Quebec 27
Canada 24
Strongly oppose SOGI-inclusive education
Alberta 13
B.C. 8
Ontario 10
Quebec 7
Canada 9
Should schools be compelled to inform parents if students join gay-straight alliances?
Definitely yes
Alberta 21
B.C. 19
Ontario 19
Quebec 17
Canada 18
Same-sex couples should not have any kind of legal recognization
Alberta 10
B.C. 7
Ontario 12
Quebec 9
Canada 10
https://researchco.ca/wp-content/upl..._01Aug2019.pdf
The poll also includes data on beliefs by heritage. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that people with origins in extremely conservative cultures tend to be more conservative than people native to one of the most liberal societies in the world.
Born as LGBTQ
European 51
East Asian 34
South Asian 24
Same-sex couples should continue to be allowed to marry.
European 71
East Asian 44
South Asian 42 |
I was talking to my friend's dad during The Amazing Race Canada which had a team of two Drag Queens. He was telling me how he didn't care they were gay, he had no issue with it, and then outlined all the reasons he didn't like them/found them annoying and they were all the qualities of behavior they were exhibiting of queerness outside a stoic masc norm.
I think this is where the real rub is. Not what people believe or would respond in a survey, but the next step of being aware of internal bias and microaggressions. Doesn't make my friend's dad a bigot, or a bad person, just a window into where he is on his journey.
That being said, if you're the queer person and everyone around you heaps on the microagressions. Those pile up. As do the dog whistles, thinly veiled or not, like the Westlock thing.
I think too, the fight for marriage equality (here almost 20 years ago and the states much more recently) is extremely important, but also isn't the be all end all of Queer existence. And culture a focus largely of cis white men marrying other cis white men as the focus of the movement literally white washes the ways within our community that colonial attitudes are still entrenched. Especially when you consider the rate in which BIPOC transwomen are statistically more likely to get murdered for just being who they are.
Also: Are you suggesting being Queer is a choice? Or merely that the respondants for the sake of the survey ID's as Queer?