Denial of equal civil rights for lesbians and gay men in the Netherlands, 1980-1993

In six national samples (a total of 11,863 respondents) of the Dutch Population, aged 16 and over, the denial of equal rights (in housing, inheriting, and adoption) for lesbians and gay men decreased from 1980 and 1985, and remained stable between 1985 and 1993. The denial of equal rights for lesbians and gay men was Subscribed to more strongly by social categories that have been exposed to traditional socializing agents and socializing circumstances in which traditional norms prevailed: members of denominations, people who frequently attend church, and older cohorts, especially the ones born before 1948, as well as by those who have presumably not dissociated themselves from these traditional norms, i.e., the lower educated. (C) 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.