Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes

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Author(s)Jones, Philip Edward
Date Accessioned2024-07-16T16:48:43Z
Date Available2024-07-16T16:48:43Z
Publication Date2024-05-24
DescriptionThis is the Accepted Manuscript version of Jones, P. E. (2024). Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes. American Politics Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241253810. This article was originally published in American Politics ResearchOnlineFirst. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241253810. © The Author(s) 2024, Article Reuse Guidelines https://sagepub.com/journals-permissions
AbstractThe labels used to describe sexual and gender minorities in the U.S. have shifted over time and become increasingly inclusive. Movement organizations have changed from describing the “lesbian, gay, and bisexual” (“LGB”) community to adding transgender (“LGBT”) and then also queer (“LGBTQ”) identities. Do these different labels affect public views of the group and support for their rights? I embedded a question wording experiment in a statewide survey, asking respondents about either LGB, LGBT, or LGBTQ people. The labels had no discernible effect on (1) support for requiring businesses to serve the group; nor (2) views of the group’s political leanings. There is no evidence that ideology and partisanship moderated these null effects: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, were unaffected by the changing designations. This suggests public attitudes are not contingent on how the LGBTQ community is labelled, a finding with implications both for movement organizations and survey researchers.
SponsorAcknowledgments I am grateful to the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication for funding the survey this study is based on. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
CitationJones, P. E. (2024). Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes. American Politics Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241253810
ISSN1552-3373
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/34577
Languageen_US
PublisherAmerican Politics Research
KeywordsLGBTQ
Keywordsquestion wording
Keywordssurvey experiment
Keywordsgroup labels
TitleLanguage and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes
TypeArticle
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