IPSOS Pride report 2026

Ah, talk of culture wars etc but no interviews with any of the critics.
Hopelessly one-sided.

God, is nauseating so far. No examination of any of the issues.

I’ll be interested in their suggestion of “what the trans debate has to do with it”. Clearly something is an issue.

Ah so the reporting is misleading then, not such a large drop. But still a drop. I guess time will tell if it’s an anomaly or a trend.

BBC Radio 4 now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00300kt

"Pride before the Fall
Across the country love for Pride events is waning. Councils are pulling funding saying that cash is better spent on potholes and emptying the bins and big companies, once eager to be associated with the Pride are withdrawing their support - and money.
Last year the company that ran Manchester Pride went out of business owing millions of pounds, the bars of the city's world famous gay village on Canal Street are funding a a new grass roots celebration. Across the country Prides are smaller, less corporate and in some cases just cancelled altogether
Darren Milby asks why it is that our allyship with LBTBQ+ rights seems to be weaker and investigates what the trans debate has got to do with it?"

So far all uncritically positive with no examination of the pink and blue elephant in the room

2021:
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-06/LGBT%20Pride%202021%20Global%20Survey%20Report_6.pdf

in 2021, it was 68% for 'legally marry' plus 14% for 'some kind of legal recognition, but not marriage' to give a total of 82%

The 66% for 'legally marry' needs to be added to the 10% for 'some kind of legal recognition, but not marriage' to give a total of 76%
Same question was asked in 2021.

Interesting suggestions. Why immigration - marriage fraud?

I wonder about a change in question as well. But it also might reflect immigration.

But it could also be about people questioning the premise more. I've heard people more than once in recent years argue for polygamous marriage or open marriage as good because it's supposedly normal for gay men. Including people like Andrew Sullivan. Which is something back in the 90s some conservatives were warning about but we're told it wouldn't happen. Including by Andrew Sullivan.

So I wonder if that also could have ch as need people's thinking.

I saw a Reddit post the other day where a woman complained that she was kissing her girlfriend at a table in a cafe, and the manager was filming them. It was clearly not an affectionate kiss, but what I used to think of as a "soap opera" kiss.

Quite a few people, more than I expected,said that while the guy was a creep, there was no expectation of privacy in a cafe and maybe they shouldn't be kissing there if they thought it's too private to film.

And there was definitely a sense with many posts that they did not want to see people kissing in public.

Maybe the question was worded in a slightly different way in 2021? It does seem like a dramatic drop which doesn’t reflect the rest of the findings. As you say, 82% seems quite high in the first place, so maybe that was misleading? I’m interested in whether that’s the only 2 times people have been asked about it. Anyone know?

Not RTFT yet so apologies if this is repeated elsewhere in the comments...

Assuming it is correct reporting, this seems concerning:

An Ipsos Mori poll published this week, part of the Ipsos Mori Pride Report 2026, suggests only 66 per cent of Britons agree with same-sex marriage, down from 82 per cent in 2021. It has been legal in England since 2014.

It would be a significant backwards step for gay and lesbian rights if there is a public shift away from equal rights. TBF I'm slightly amazed that 82% were in favour of it in the first place. Obviously that's great if true but (again if true) I wonder what has caused such a dramatic shift away from supporting this.

Hopefully it's not a failure to separate LGB from T+ when thinking about rights. But perhaps it is?

It’s a relief to read that the actually quite tolerant British nature remains LGB accepting (as it should) and hope that there is greater recognition of LGB✂T.

The deliberate conflation has got to go. It was only a coattails initiative anyway, pretending that trans-identified people need extra rights by somehow vonnect them to discrimination that gays and lesbians had suffered in the past. Stonewall and their adherents seem to be shifting to the "Trans+" now anyway. I expect that they will completely drop the LGB as soon as they feel they don't need to use them anymore.

Thanks for crunching those numbers @RedToothBrush

Break downs like that are great for the Stats archive thread.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5445880-statistics-poll-evidence-archive-thread?page=1

Thanks for crunching the numbers @RedToothBrush

They illustrate very clearly that Terf Island objects not to trans people per se, but to men being in women's spaces. As we've said all along!

If organisations such as Amnesty had any intellectual openness they would notice the huge gulf between the views of the UK and Turkey and realise that gender criticism and gender conservatism are completely different things

Bumping past the visitor’s 2010 zombie threads…

That’s not a surprise given the move away from being a secular to an Islamic country under Erdogan.

And to respond to @gayhistorynerd comment that It’s overwhelmingly straight, really. I’m not saying it should ever tip too far in the other direction, but it would be nice to be able to channel surf with the expectation that I might find something with a gay character rather than having to seek it out.

Perhaps it is not over representation per se but more that there are LGBTQ+ characters in high profile films/tv such as Alice in Borderland, Euphoria, Heartstopper, Big Sky, Control Z, I May Destroy You, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, White Lotus, The Last of Us, Baby Reindeer, Heated Rivalry and so on. Many of these shows are from the streaming giants such as Netflix or Prime rather than traditional channels (though we could mention Dr Who and It’s a Sin) that aim to be edgy to garner airtime and viewers’ attention.

such an interesting survey. makes me proud to be british! thanks for posting Arabella

The main soaps have quite a lot of gay characters and storylines

The TRA framing is not surprising given the authors are not only Canadian academics but gender studies academics so we’d expect no less from them than this piece lacking any real analysis or critical reflection. In any event, the question is very very open to wide variations of interpretations: People should be able to express their gender however they choose.

There’s little context provided for what is meant by ‘however they choose’ and possibly respondents disagreed with any male feeling themselves female being free to enter any female single sex space. Canadians might be getting a bit fed up of with abuse of that freedom eg getting annoyed by men taking women’s sports titles. There was that male Canadian weight lifting coach (?) declaring himself female to enter a female weight lifting competition in order to beat a trans identifying man who’d been the previous champion.

And what’s interesting is the less positive support for affirmative answers to that question despite the preceding text that says: The next statements are opinions that may be held by members of Canadian society when it comes to gender roles for women and men and violence in relationships. If I’d read that and then was asked "People should be able to express their gender however they choose" I may have thought the question was alluding to gendered roles more broadly.

Given the reduced support, makes you wonder if the over representation of TQ+ characters in film, advertising etc. vs the actual 0.33% (except in Vancouver where surely it’s 33%) of the population and the cases of men in women’s sports is causing a backlash.

I appreciate PPs points in regards to the more worrying aspects of the survey.

When it comes to public displays of affection, or specifies kissing and holding hands. I see couples holding hands all the time, and giving light kisses while out and about- it can’t be that the majority of people find it disgusting regardless of orientation! If it hadn’t given those examples I’d expect a more negative reaction, but it’s clear they meant very mild, everyday affections.

On representation, I’m surprised so many people feel it’s already over-the-top! If I were to scan the main TV channels or whatever’s on at my local cinema, I think I would find very few gay characters and storylines. And off the top of my head, even less trans characters and storylines, though that’s not something I tend to look out for. Gay characters and stories are something I go out of my way to find so I make sure I’m tuning in at the right times, but the rest of the day? Or week? Or month? It’s overwhelmingly straight, really. I’m not saying it should ever tip too far in the other direction, but it would be nice to be able to channel surf with the expectation that I might find something with a gay character rather than having to seek it out.

"Support for trans athletes competing based on their gender identity has dropped from 32% in 2021 to 22% in 2026 across 23 countries*, with opposition the dominant view in almost all countries, including historically supportive ones."

Excellent news!

Also glad to see, as others have said, that the UK is simultaneously rejecting outrageous TRA demands and holding strong in support of lgb rights