PERCEPTION SURVEY ON LGBTI+s
The research was supported by the Council of Europe and conducted by Kaos GL Association through Prodege research firm. This research was conducted in an atmosphere where LGBTI+'s are mentioned every as one of the biggest survival problems of the world and Turkey, and some politicians cannot speak without generating hate speech against LGBTI+'s.
Actors who speak out against LGBTI+ rights either claim that Turkish society ready for it or that the whole society is against it and legitimize discrimination by constantly generating hate speech. While the actors who generate hate speech were speaking on behalf of the whole society, it was not known how the Turkish society was actually in terms of LGBTI+ rights. For this reason, it was necessary to make visible the awareness and change created in the society by LGBTI+'s who have been struggling in an organized way for more than 30 years.
Since there has never been a public opinion survey reflecting the sample of Turkey in terms of measuring attitudes and perceptions towards LGBTI + persons, this research is also a first in this respect. Generally, researches with different foci in different fields include surveys on LGBTI+'s attitudes and perceptions towards LGBTI+'s.
There are questions that measure attitudes and perceptions. Since we do not know the way the questions are asked, their classification, their relationship with the research topic and the motivations of those conducting the research, we cannot predict whether these surveys provide data on LGBTI+ persons. Therefore, it was not possible to compare the findings with previous research.
Published on September 20, 1994, Kaos GL Magazine celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2024. For more than 30 years, we have been explaining LGBTI+ rights on platforms where we encounter both LGBTI+s and the whole society, from May 1st squares to anti-discrimination lectures, from antihomophobia meetings to human rights trainings, from May 17th Anti-Homophobia Day events to the Feminist Forum, and we wanted to use this public opinion survey as an opportunity to review our awareness and advocacy work, and basically ourselves.
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KaosGL Derneği |
| Release Year: | 2025 |
| Subject: | Survey / Research |
| Publication Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Rainbow Association Against Discrimination |
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