By Brody Levesque (Washington D.C.) Sept 4 | A week ago today, I published the results of a poll conducted by the LGBT news and blog site 365gay.com, where the question; "Do you think issues dealing with gay youth are overlooked?," was answered yes by an significant majority of respondents who participated.
This poll intrigued me, so I decided to enlist the assistance of a good friend in Britain who runs a prominent Gay website and had him run an identical poll there. Although his site has primarily traffic from the U.K. & Europe, there are visitors from the Middle East, Asia, and of course the U. S. & Canada. I was keen on seeing that even with the more liberal views of LGBT issues in some of the European Union and Britain, or in countries with much more conservative viewpoints, would the results mirror the 365gay poll? Tonight I checked in with his site and thus far, the results are running with a high percentage responding yes, in fact, matching the original polling.
Given that apparently most feel that LGBT youth issues are overlooked, one might ponder as to how many of the participants are willing to make a difference by actively taking action to change that?
This poll intrigued me, so I decided to enlist the assistance of a good friend in Britain who runs a prominent Gay website and had him run an identical poll there. Although his site has primarily traffic from the U.K. & Europe, there are visitors from the Middle East, Asia, and of course the U. S. & Canada. I was keen on seeing that even with the more liberal views of LGBT issues in some of the European Union and Britain, or in countries with much more conservative viewpoints, would the results mirror the 365gay poll? Tonight I checked in with his site and thus far, the results are running with a high percentage responding yes, in fact, matching the original polling.
Given that apparently most feel that LGBT youth issues are overlooked, one might ponder as to how many of the participants are willing to make a difference by actively taking action to change that?
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I've linked my pseudonym in this comment to the current (and continual) poll results page, Brody.
The results today show somne 80+ percent who agree with the larger poll that 'Yes. I think gay youth do not get the attention they need'.
With 142 answers so far this is actually a statistically significant sample, so a qualified statistician informed me. Over the next three weeks we are likely to double the response, and it is likely that the percentages will vary by a couple of points here or there.
The site visitor profile is geographically dispersed:
It is USA and UK first, followed in order by: Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, India, France, Norway, Ireland, Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Sweden, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, Singapore, Israel, Belgium... I can go on! 147 nations visited over the past 30 days! This is the top 25.
You can see that the answers will be skewed in the USA's favour. But what I cannot tell from the site stats is which nations answered the poll. All I know is that 199 souls viewed the results page.
If your readers want to take the poll it's at iomfats.org about half way down, and will remain on the front page for the next 3-4 weeks. For those who are not gay I do need them to know that the site is entirely a gay interest site and that anything past the front page may not be to their taste.
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