Abstract

The global population of individuals with gender diversity or LGBTQ people is on the rise. Nowadays, due to influence of mass media and social networking sites; many platforms are there which provide the knowledge to change the perspective of people regarding LGBTQ. However, still negative attitude towards LGBTQ individuals persist. These attitudes are influenced by cultural variations worldwide.There are many cultural norms, values and morals which are against the LGBTQ community. Also there is Stereotyping, gender discrimination and oppression towards LGBTQ community is still very prevalent in society. The aim of the study was to assess the level of attitude of undergraduate students regarding LGBTQ community. For which, 100 subjects taken from Law department of Khalsa college, Amritsar through purposive sampling technique. A likert scale was used to elicit the detailed information related to study objective. The major findings of the study shows that 93%of the students have good level of attitude towards LGBTQ community and 70% have bad level of attitude towards LGBTQ community whereas mean and standard deviation of the study findings were 18.91±101.96 respectively. Hence, the attitude of the students is positive towards LGBTQ community.