(April 5, 2025 at 11:39 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Much of the cultural/religious stance currently present in Africa and Latin America can be traced back to western/white roots. What little we know about the cultures that existed prior to colonialism suggests that they were far more tolerant, on average. There's less contamination throughout Asia, so I'll grant you that. I was speaking about North America though and our culture is pretty contaminated by white male puritanism.
Yet black American are apparently more homophobic, by the numbers:
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The proportion of African Americans who indicated that homosexuality was “always wrong” was 72.3% in 2008, largely unchanged since the 1970s. In contrast, among white respondents, this figure declined from 70.8% in 1973 to 51.6% in 2008, with most change occurring since the early 1990s. Participants who knew a gay person were less likely to have negative attitudes toward homosexuality (RR=0.60, 95% CI: 0.52–0.69). Among MSM, twice as many African American MSM reported that homosexuality is “always wrong” compared to white MSM (57.1% vs. 26.8%, p=0.003). MSM with unfavorable attitudes toward homosexuality were less likely to report ever testing for HIV compared to MSM with more favorable attitudes (RR=0.50, 95% CI: 0.31–0.78).
Conclusions
U.S. attitudes toward homosexuality are characterized by persistent racial differences, which may help explain disparities in HIV infection rates between African American and white MSM.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2974805/
I suspect that goes to their religiosity.
