Positive attitudes with 2010 Houston Area Survey
The Houston Area Survey unveiled it’s results for 2010 and among the categories of immigration, city planning and traffic, gay and lesbian issues took a positive increase for the third year in a row.
Focusing on adoption, teaching, military and marriage, all but one issue – teaching – showed growth in Texas’ largest city.
Adoption rose to just above the halfway point, 52 percent, up nine percent from two years before. Support for gays serving openly in the military increased from 64 to 73 percent as did attitudes towards gay marriage from 32 to 43 percent.
The issue of gay and lesbian teachers, one that has had a volatile few years, declined in support dropping from 66 to 59 percent.
Another statistic presented is the belief that homosexuality is primarily “a matter of personal choice,” rather than an inborn trait or something caused by the social environment which declined from 41 percent in 2008 to 34 percent in 2010.
A metropolis of industries and home to over 4 million people, Houston remains at the forefront of gay and lesbian rights for Texas and the southwest.
The overall struggles facing the Houston LGBTQ community has lessened throughout the years. The general trend, however slow, is a positive one. In recent years more and more members of the community have been given rights they didn’t have before and this evolution of politics has transcended into attitudes with the general public.
All the results concerning gays and lesbians along with other social trends in Houston can be found on the Houston Area Survey
