One discussion with students about annual gay pride provokes
idea for survey. The survey was run by the students themselves.
They interview their colleges from private New Bulgarian University
and from state Sofia University, using a two steps cluster
sample.
The main issues from survey are:
- A small amount of students (about 10 %) have strong negative
attitudes to gay and lesbian people. They deny them the right of
marriage, the right to work as educators and teachers, the right to
serve in army and to be politicians. They also hate minority groups
and willing to put them in concentration camps. These students are
very consecutive in their views and perfectly fall in a definition
of Adorno for authoritarian man.
- The rest of students haven't clear attitudes toward gay and
lesbian. They contradict and in one cause they give homosecsuals
the rights to be like every other people, but in another cause deny
them the same rights. Especially they afraid if homosexuals work
like educators. They do not hate minority groups.
- When students answer abstractly, they demonstrate negative
views to gay and lesbian, but they receive them as friends in an
every day life and if they have a homosecsual child they will love
him or her as a normal child.
- So the negative stereotypes toward gay and lesbians do not
cause discrimination in a real life.