Is a Lbian, Gay or Bisexual Inty More Common Today? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?
• IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
• MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?

Straight women are much more likely to get themselv knocked up than gay women. So, terms of evolutn, they would seem to have a better chance of passg on their gen, while at the same time would seem that the gen that make women gay would quickly vanish om the gene pool. This rais the qutn, why are there gay women?

While scientists have a theory for how male homosexualy propagat om one generatn to the next, no one has yet produced a viable explanatn for how the gen that promote lbianism might do the same. [Why Are There Gay Men?

A study by Dutch psychologists published the March issue of the Journal of Sexual Medice reported that 10 to 12 percent of male and female children who feel disfort wh their genr go on to intify as gay or lbian as adults. Meanwhile, jt 1 or 2 percent of children who are fortable wh their genr inty turn out to be gay or to the nfn about what lbianism is the slippers of female sexualy self. Therefore, the qutn "why are there gay women?

IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?

" Plenty of women exist at both extrem of the straight-gay spectm, but is the formatn of this slippery spectm self that most needs explag. Recent survey data the US and the UK revealed that the proportn of the populatn who intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual has risen slightly and that this trend is particularly salient among the youngt generatn: Generatn Z. In the UK, only a slight majory of Gen Z members dite that they have an exclively heterosexual attractn, while the US, a Gallup poll dit that roughly 15% of Gen Z intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual – pared to 7.

9% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual when asked about their sexual inty today. Percentage of each generatn intifyg as Bisexual, Gay or Lbian based on Amerin Gallup 2020 data. 9% of the Baby Boomers surveyed the US dited they were not heterosexual, many more may have still had same-sex experienc throughout their lifpan, but they simply do not firmly intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

It is much easier to e out today as lbian, gay, or bisexual than was even jt 10 years ago, let alone 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. In Canada, for example, any dividual 53 years of age or olr 2021 was born at a time when homosexualy was a crimal offence. Ined, some dividuals may have been gay, lbian, or bisexual and simply never me out to even themselv.

There is, however, also a much darker explanatn for why we see fewer dividuals om past generatns intifyg as lbian, gay, or bisexual today than we do om the younger generatns. The elephant the room is HIV/AIDS epimic that claimed nearly an entire generatn of gay and bisexual men. Gay and bisexual men om the Baby Boomer generatn were between 16 and 34 years of age at the peak of the HIV/AIDS epimic North Ameri.

While is impossible to ever have accurate populatn statistics on a hidn populatn, is timated that at least 10% of gay men the Uned Stat between the ag of 25 and 44 had died by 1995.