Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
Contents:
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
- HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
* percentage of population gay males *
Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual. Explore Gallup qutns and trends about gay and lbian rights on Gallup's Topics A-Z page. How many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins are there?
Back 1948 sex rearcher Aled Ksey famoly suggted that 10 percent of the mal he'd studied were, quote, "more or ls exclively homosexual, " unquote. He's -thor of the book "The Gay and Lbian Atlas" and he's wh om NPR Wt Southern California. Also, the Ksey Instute has - which is the legacy of Ksey - has stated very clearly that their view is that this was a kd of a polil cisn of gay activists the '70s.
They need at that time to nvce people that the gay people actually existed and fact that they were kd of everywhere.
HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
Host Michel Mart and Judy Bradford of the Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health discs the Instute Of Medice's report fdgs, as well as the LGBT muny's most prevalent health issu. Demographer Gary Gat also jos the nversatn. He is bunkg famo sex rearcher Aled Ksey's claim that 10% of mal the U.S. are gay. He talks about this percentage, the real number of Ameri's LGBT people, and challeng to gatherg accurate data. * percentage of population gay males *
And they took that rather obscure passage om a Ksey book, which was never tend to be an timate of the number of gay people the Uned Stat and kd of adopted for polil purpos. So qutns like, do you nsir yourself to be - and then, you know, you n choose gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual.
8 percent who self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr. And, fact, we will lk to a piece that you wrote for The Washgton Post tled "Gay People Count, So Why Not Count Them Correctly? And so the key on here are HIV and STDs, of urse most proment among gay men and transgenr people.
Increasg numbers of populatn-based surveys the Uned Stat and across the world clu qutns that allow for an timate of the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. 5% of adults the Uned Stat intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual and an timated 0. 7% who intify as lbian or gay).
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
U.S. adults timate that nearly one four Amerins (23.6%) are gay or lbian. Gallup has prevly found that Amerins have greatly overtimated the U.S. gay populatn. * percentage of population gay males *
Conversely, gay men prise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men seven of the ne surveys.
Unrstandg the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn is a cril first step to rmg a host of public policy and rearch topics. In measurg sexual orientatn, lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals may be intified strictly based on their self-inty or may be possible to nsir same-sex sexual behavr or sexual attractn.
How many adults are lbian, gay, or bisexual? Fdgs shown Figure 1 nsir timat of the percentage of adults who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual across ne surveys nducted wh the past seven years. While the surveys show a fairly wi variatn the overall percentage of adults who intify as LGB, the proportn who intify as lbian/gay vers bisexual is somewhat more nsistent (see Figure 2).