Political tolerance among adolescents towards homosexuals in Spain

This paper studies the willingness that an adolescent has to extend human r ights to homosexuals. This willingness defines the concept of political tol erance towards homosexuals. Results of this study show that the rights that adolescents are less willing to extend to homosexuals are those more relat ed to the activities that homosexuals do to recover their rights, as the ri ght of demonstrating on the street. This study also pretends to find those variables more related to political tolerance towards homosexuals. Self-est eem, political experience, support for democratic norms and identification with a group of friends are positively related to political tolerance towar ds homosexuals, whereas support for violent groups or the identification wi th a religious group are negatively related.