Intersecting identities: The influence of political ideology and social location on attitudes toward homosexuality in Canada.

This article examines how political ideology influences attitudes toward homosexuality in Canada, focusing on how this relationship is moderated by gender, income, and immigrant status. Using data from the seventh round of the Canadian World Values Survey (N = 4,018), the study finds that conservative ideology does not uniformly predict lower tolerance; instead, its effect varies across social locations, producing complex and sometimes counterintuitive patterns. Women generally show higher justification of homosexuality than men, while right-wing ideology is linked to lower tolerance among lower- and middle-income individuals but higher tolerance among wealthier right-leaning respondents. Immigrant status also moderates this relationship, with immigrant males exhibiting stronger negative associations between right-wing ideology and tolerance. By integrating intersectionality and social dominance theory, the research highlights how intersecting social identities shape hierarchy-maintaining attitudes toward homosexuality in a progressive country like Canada.