#anti-gay discrimination

For all the LGBT community’s remarkable momentum over the past year, it’s worth noting: A surprising number of Americans (30%) still think homosexuality (not same-sex marriage, homosexuality) should be illegal.vox has the rundown here.

A new report by the advocacy group Stop Street Harassment looks at how often women and GBT men are sexually harassed when they’re out and about, minding their own business. (Hint: a lot.) 

Slate has the rundown:

Among women, street harassment most commonly took the form of sexualized commentary like whistles, “pssssst” sounds, animal noises, and statements like “mmm, sexy”—51 percent of women reported these incidents, compared to 6 percent of men. But harassment against men often took on a different sexual element. The most frequent type of harassment reported by men came in the form of homophobic or transphobic slurs (which had been experienced by 9 percent of men in the survey).

Gay, bisexual, and trans men were much more likely than straight men to report experiencing harassment, and to experience it frequently. (Meanwhile, heterosexual men were the most likely of any group to say they had been harassed just once in their lives.)