Homophobia around the world

While acceptance towards the LGBTQ community has increased in recent years, anti-gay sentiments remain a real — and often violent — threat.

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00:00Did you just touch my leg? Eh, faggot?

00:30In preparing this broadcast, CBS News commissioned a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation

00:50into public attitudes toward homosexuality. We discovered that Americans consider homosexuality

00:57more harmful to society than adultery, abortion, or prostitution.

01:14This was the Rosa Parks moment, the time that gay people stood up and said, no.

01:40This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends, our fellow Americans

01:44who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The shooter targeted a nightclub where people

01:53came together to be with friends, to dance, and to sing, and to live.