Villar Feliciano, Serrat Rodrigo, de Sao José José Manuel, Montero María, Giuliani María Florencia, Carbajal Maria, da Cassia Oliveira Rita, Nina-Estrella Ruth, Curcio Camen-Lucía, Alfonso Alina, Tirro Victoria
a Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain.
b Faculty of Economics, University of El Algarve , Faro , Portugal.
J Homosex. 2019;66(11):1546-1569. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1503462. Epub 2018 Sep 20.
The purpose of this research was to explore attitudes toward older lesbians and gay men disclosing their sexual preferences in eight Latin American countries. The sample consisted of 1,539 participants belonging to three age groups (18-29 years, 60-69 years, and 70 years and over). Their answers to two open-ended questions were content-analyzed, and binary logistic regressions were run on the extreme attitudinal categories. Results showed that although most attitudes were positive, a solid percentage of participants still expressed different kinds of derogatory attitudes. Men (as compared to women) and participants who were more religious and less educated tended to hold more negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. Both older samples were more prejudiced than the younger one, and attitudes also varied according to country. There was a general trend showing more positive attitudes toward older lesbians and gay men in those countries where sexual minorities' rights are better assured, which suggests that measures to protect sexual minorities and to make sexual diversity in older age visible could be advisable.
本研究的目的是探讨八个拉丁美洲国家中人们对老年女同性恋者和男同性恋者公开其性取向的态度。样本包括1539名参与者,分为三个年龄组(18 - 29岁、60 - 69岁、70岁及以上)。对他们针对两个开放式问题的回答进行了内容分析,并对极端态度类别进行了二元逻辑回归分析。结果表明,尽管大多数态度是积极的,但仍有相当比例的参与者表达了不同类型的贬损态度。男性(与女性相比)以及宗教信仰更强、受教育程度更低的参与者对女同性恋者和男同性恋者往往持有更负面的态度。两个年龄较大的样本比年轻样本更具偏见,而且态度也因国家而异。总体趋势显示,在那些性少数群体权利得到更好保障的国家,人们对老年女同性恋者和男同性恋者的态度更为积极,这表明采取措施保护性少数群体并使老年期的性取向多元化可见可能是可取的。