https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/6/24/sws-survey-lgbt-trustworthy-nation-builders.html

Most Filipino adults agree that gays and lesbians are just as trustworthy as any other citizen, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.

According to the poll body’s study conducted from March 26 to 29 this year, 79% of the 1,200 respondents agree to a statement stating that they trust gays or lesbians as much as any other Filipino.

The survey, which was released on Friday, said only 7% said they do not trust gays or lesbians while 13% were undecided.

The same poll showed that 73% of the respondents think that members of the LGBTQIA+ community “contributed a lot in the progress of the society.” To this, only 8% disagreed and the remaining 19% were undecided.

Apart from the positive results towards the views on gays and lesbians, the results also said 43% of the participants think that sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, are confined to members of the said community.

It also showed 40% of respondents want their gay or lesbian family members “to change and become straight men and women.”

The poll also said 26% claimed that “being gay or lesbian is contagious.”

SWS said the non-commissioned survey had a sampling error at ±2.8%.