Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Ayam Monika and Dr. Sampreety Gogoi

Abstract:
LGBTQ people faced many challenges liked discrimination, bullying, harassment etc. These challenges is triggered by people perception and prejudice about the LGBTQ people which lead them to think that LGBTQ people are unnatural or it is against nature. Knowledge will influence how we express ourselves and how we behave towards an object, subject or person. If a person have a positive belief or perception about a thing, then the person is likely to have positive viewpoint towards it. The present study was conducted in the Lamphelpat block, Manipur to assess the youth knowledge about LGBTQ and to explore youth acceptance towards LGBTQ. Four educational institutes were selected for the study with higher number of enrollment. Samples were selected randomly through probability proportional to size (PPS) method. The study was conducted on 225 numbers of youth in the age group 19-22 years. A self-constructed questionnaire and a standardized tool were used to collect the required information from all the respondents. The collected data were coded and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. The findings of the study revealed that majority (68.44%) of youths had an average level of knowledge about the LGBTQ. It was also found that youth still have some biasness towards this community and they are not able to Accept the LGBTQ community readily as one accept man or woman.