Filipino University Students’ Attitude Toward Sexual Minorities

Abstract

Whether or not sexual minorities in the Philippines higher education system are socially acceptable is not clear. This article specifically investigates the acceptance of gay and lesbian university students in the Philippines and implications for international gay or lesbian students’ sociocultural transition. We sampled opinions of both local and international students in all the academic departments of a private university in the province of Cavite. The participants were selected using a proportionate stratified convenience sampling technique according to which they were grouped by academic department and chosen based on their availability, proximity, and convenience. We administered surveys to 368 registered students in 2011. Of the 368 questionnaires distributed, 358 responses were received, which constitutes a 97.3% response rate. Using transition theory, the article argues that the attitude toward sexual orientation had some negative implications for gay and lesbian international students transitioning into the sociocultural environment of the Philippines.

Neglected gaps in improving the health, wellbeing, and care for sexual and gender minority young people living in low- and lower-middle- income countries: a scoping review

“…The 79 included papers were published between January 2010 and May 2023 across 56 unique peer-reviewed journals. The majority of papers included in our review were published between 2020–2023 ( n = 47, 59.49%) [ 16 , 23 – 68 ]. There were 47 papers published between 2020–2023, which is more than the number of papers published during the preceding decade.…”

“…The 79 included papers drew primarily from data collected in East Asia and the Pacific ( n = 28, 35.44%) [ 23 , 24 , 33 , 35 , 39 , 45 , 46 , 51 , 52 , 58 – 62 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 75 – 84 ], Sub-Saharan Africa ( n = 25, 31.65%) [ 26 – 31 , 38 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 50 , 63 , 66 , 71 , 85 – 95 ], and South Asia ( n = 20, 25.32%) [ 25 , 32 , 34 , 40 , 42 , 49 , 53 , 54 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 64 , 65 , 69 , 73 , 74 , 96 – 99 ] (see Fig. 2 ).…”

“…Only three publications drew from studies conducted in low-income countries, all in Uganda [ 48 , 86 , 88 ]. Seventy-three papers described studies conducted, at least in part, in lower-middle-income countries, with the most from India ( n = 12, 15.19%) [ 32 , 34 , 40 , 49 , 53 , 56 , 64 , 65 , 74 , 97 – 99 ], the Philippines ( n = 10, 12.66%) [ 23 , 35 , 58 – 62 , 68 , 75 , 81 ], and Vietnam ( n = 10, 12.66%) [ 24 , 33 , 39 , 46 , 67 , 70 , 72 , 77 , 82 , 84 ]. Three papers were global in scope [ 16 , 55 , 100 ].…”

“…Almost half of the papers ( n = 37, 46.84%) were cross-sectional studies [ 23 – 27 , 34 – 36 , 38 , 43 , 47 , 49 , 53 , 58 , 59 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 67 , 72 , 75 – 77 , 79 – 82 , 85 – 91 , 97 , 99 , 101 ] (see Table 1 ). An additional twenty-three publications (29.11%) employed qualitative designs [ 30 , 33 , 37 , 40 – 42 , 45 , 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 60 , 66 , 69 – 71 , 73 , 78 , 92 – 94 ], five (6.33%) were mixed methods [ 28 , 29 , 46 , 68 , 83 ], four used a pre-post design (5.06%) [ 84 , 95 , 96 , 98 ], and two (2.53%) were case studies [ 32 , 63 ].…”

Neglected gaps in improving the health, wellbeing, and care for sexual and gender minority young people living in low- and lower-middle- income countries: a scoping review

“…Nearly half 42.55%) of all included papers focused on attitudes toward SGM populations. The study participants included college or university students [19,20,47,[50][51][52], high school students [32], medical students [22,23,31,36,37], adolescents [41-43, 60, 61], and non-SGM adults [25,62,63]. Of these twenty papers, only three had SGM study participants [22,23,60], none of which explicitly mentioned internalized homophobia or transphobia.…”