Survey: Gays feel more accepted.
We do? Good heavens, why doesn't anyone tell me these things before I read them in the newspaper? I'm a union member in good standing! Haven't been on probation in months, even!
The findings by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation were based on phone interviews with 405 randomly selected self-identified lesbians, gays and bisexuals in 15 U.S. cities last November.
Um ... don't need to go on about the problems in reporting data with self selected samples, do I? And, after all, the people who don't self-report are the ones most likely to have the sort of information a survey like this would need. After all, why aren't they jumping up and saying, "I'm here! I'm queer! Survey me, babycakes!"? Could it be that they feel that they would experience discrimination or a signal lack of acceptance? Hmmm....
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