Edutnal participatn and attament of lbian, gay and bisexual people Canada

Contents:

• SOCENOMIC PROFILE OF THE LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL POPULATN, 2015 TO 2018
• THE TE NORTH LGBT: NEW POLL REVEALS LANDSPE OF GAY CANADA

SOCENOMIC PROFILE OF THE LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL POPULATN, 2015 TO 2018

PolicsCanada is now home to about one ln people who intify as members of the LGBTQ muny, wh people unr the age of 25 acuntg for a disproportnately large portn of the LGBTQ says s reportg on transgenr populatns will improveA rabow flag hangs Montreal's Gay Village.

THE TE NORTH LGBT: NEW POLL REVEALS LANDSPE OF GAY CANADA

Pri Season brgs together members of diverse muni who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, Two-Spir, or those who intify wh another non-bary genr or mory sexual inty (LGBTQ2+) and alli celebratg one of Canada's greatt strengths that is diversy and cln. Much of the data this release foc on LGB Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual), sce Statistics Canada has been llectg tailed rmatn on the muni sce 2003. Although much has been acplished sce the begng of the new lennium, cludg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage  2005, and protectg genr exprsn and inty the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Crimal Co  2017, ncerns rema, given the spike hate crim targetg LGBTQ2+ Canadians one-third of LGBTQ2+ Canadians are unr 25 years oldCombed data om the 2015 to 2018 cycl of the Canadian Communy Health Survey (CCHS) found that one-quarter of Canada's LGB populatn were gay men (255, 100), while 1  7 are gay or lbian women (150, 600).

Concerns rema terms of acceptance, mental health and well-begAcrdg to the 2018 Survey on Safety Public and Private Spac, LGB+ Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual, and Canadians whose sexual orientatn is not heterosexual) were more likely to report beg vlently victimized their lifetime and to have experienced appropriate behavurs public and onle than non-sexual mory Canadians. Nearly 9  10 (88%) of the crim specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny, while the remar prised cints targetg bisexual people (2%), people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (6%), and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (4%).

Statistics Canada will also be releasg a seri of four articl g the CCHS over the urse of 2021 and early 2022 to highlight the characteristics of the lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual populatn on the followg them: fay and hoehold characteristics, lguistic and ethnocultural diversy, tn and labour. At Statistics Canada, the LGBTQ2+ acronym is ed to reflect the broad spe of genr and sexual inti that exist acronym LGBTQ2+ ed this release clus lbian, gay, bisexual, or another mory sexual inty such as asexual or pansexual, as well as mory genr inty (trans and non-bary inti like genrqueer, genr fluid, pangenr or agenr).

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual.

Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or intify as openly gay. More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. Prev analysis foced on topics such as health and victimizatn, leavg a gap available socenomic rmatn about the lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) populatn.

Released today, a new data table prents a selectn of variabl of the populatn aged 15 and olr by sexual orientatn (lbian or gay, bisexual or heterosexual). The table leverag Statistics Canada's existg data holdgs, g pooled cycl of the CCHS (2015/2016 and 2017/2018) to highlight the profile of the LGB populatn Canada (see note to rears) table prents socenomic characteristics, cludg maral stat, the prence of children unr the age of 12  the hoehold, tn level, employment, hoehold e, Indigeno inty, belongg to a populatn group signated as a visible mory group, language and place of rince, and n be broken down by sex, age group and LGB populatn is younger than the heterosexual populatnAcrdg to CCHS data om 2015 to 2018, an timated 900, 000 Canadians were lbian, gay, or bisexual, reprentg 3. Four articl will be released over the urse of 2021 to highlight the characteristics of lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual men and women on the followg them: fai and hoeholds, lguistic and ethnocultural diversy, tn, and labour.

The CCHS sexual orientatn variable ntaed three rponse tegory optns: heterosexual (sexual relatns wh people of the oppose sex), homosexual, that is lbian or gay (sexual relatns wh people of your own sex), and bisexual (sexual relatns wh people of both sex). The Government of Canada the acronym 2SLGBTQI+ to refer to people that are Two-Spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, or who e other terms related to genr or sexual diversy.

LGB people were more likely to live ci than ral muni—gay men particular beg the most likely to live Canada’s largt cens metropolan areas. More than one-third of gay and lbian olr adults were sgle—substantially higher than among heterosexual and bisexual olr adults.

While upl and fai share many siar challeng regardls of their characteristics, same-sex upl and fai head by lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) people face different circumstanc pared wh heterosexual upl and fai.

LGB dividuals were more likely than their heterosexual unterparts to live populatn centr than ral Gay and lbian people were the most likely to live large urban populatn centr (74. Marriage has been ls popular Quebec than most other provc and terrori for some In Quebec, the populatn aged 25 to 64 was the most likely to be livg mon-law than married across sexual orientatn groups (heterosexual, gay or lbian, and bisexual), pared wh other.