Personal Contact and Leadership Foster Social Acceptance % saying each *helps a lot" in making society more accepting saying of people *helps who are LGBT making
LGBT adults believe that greater social acceptance has come as a result of more Americans knowing someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to our survey. Individual relationships and the role of well-known public figures, like Ellen DeGeneres, are viewed as being the most helpful things in fostering acceptance. Seven-in-ten LGBT adults say people knowing someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender helps a lot in making society more accepting, and 24% say this helps a little.
Personal Contact and Leadership  | Foster Social Acceptance  | % saying each *helps a lot" in making society more  | accepting saying of people *helps who are LGBT making  | People knowing  | 70  | someone who is LGBT  | Well-known public  | CONTERTATION  | figures who being are public open  | about being LGBT open  | issues Support non-LGBT for LGBT  | issues from non-LGBT  | 66  | leaders  | LGBT people families Traising  | people families Traising  | LGBT characters in TV  | characters fand movies  | LGBT pride events  | 28  | Note: Based on all LGBT (N=1,197).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER  | LGBT/63a-f 