Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Homosex. 2020 Aug 23;67(10):1401-1411. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1591787. Epub 2019 Apr 2.
Only since 2011 have sexual minorities been able to serve openly in the U.S. military. The previous anti-gay policies and culture of the military may have increased anti-gay beliefs among veterans. Using data from the 2010-2016 General Social Survey, we tested whether veterans more frequently endorsed anti-gay beliefs than their non-veteran peers. Adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics with multiple logistic regression, we tested the associations of veteran status with five anti-gay beliefs (i.e., disallowing a gay person (1) from publicly speaking or (2) teaching at a university, (3) removing a gay-supportive book from a library, (4) whether same-sex sexual relations are wrong, and (5) support of same-sex marriage. Veteran status was associated with greater disagreement with same-sex marriage ( = 0.16, = 0.033) but not with other anti-gay beliefs. Most anti-gay beliefs among veterans were explained by other sociodemographic factors and may not be inherent to veteran status.
自 2011 年以来，性少数群体才能够公开在美国军队服役。军队之前的反同性恋政策和文化可能增加了退伍军人的反同性恋信仰。我们使用了 2010-2016 年一般社会调查的数据，检验了退伍军人比非退伍军人更频繁地支持反同性恋信仰的情况。通过多项逻辑回归调整社会人口特征，我们检验了退伍军人身份与五种反同性恋信仰（即不允许同性恋者（1）公开演讲或（2）在大学任教，（3）从图书馆中删除支持同性恋的书籍，（4）是否认为同性性行为是错误的，以及（5）支持同性婚姻）之间的关联。退伍军人身份与对同性婚姻的更大反对（ = 0.16， = 0.033）有关，但与其他反同性恋信仰无关。退伍军人的大多数反同性恋信仰都可以用其他社会人口因素来解释，而不是退伍军人身份的内在因素。
