More than half of generatn Z gay, bisexual | EurekAlert!

Contents:

• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• "THE GAY TREND"
• MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

The poll rults show an creased willgns to self-intify across all four tegori: More people are willg to ll themselv gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr. A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali. Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.

In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics. Evolutnarily speakg, if homosexualy was solely a geic tra, scientists would expect the tra to eventually disappear bee homosexuals wouldn't be expected to reproduce.

"THE GAY TREND"

But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn. "The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay.

Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between. " Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work. 5 percent Gallup’s fdgs based on 2017 a time when the majory of Amerins support gay rights, more than half a after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, ’s clear that a growg percentage of the U.

MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS

When Hammack was g out the 1990s, there was no YouTube, no Instagram, no easy way to rearch sexualy or genr outsi a library or a Gay-Straight Alliance group. ”The ‘silent majory’ of the LGBT munyUnlike Gallup’s surveys prev years, which simply asked rponnts to answer “y” or “no” to whether they intify as LGBT, the 2020 survey allowed rponnts to give a greater level of tail about their fdgs provi a wdow to the largt subset of LGBT Amerins, a group that Hammack lls “the silent majory of the LGBT muny”: bisexual than half of LGBT adults intify as bisexual, the Gallup survey data found, while a quarter say they are gay, 12 percent intify as lbian, 11 percent as transgenr and 3 percent as another term, such as queer.

This means that nearly 12 percent of all Gen Z adults intify as bisexual, and about 2 percent each intify as gay, lbian or parison, about half of lennials who intify as LGBT say they are bisexual, while olr age groups, intifyg as bisexual is about as mon as intifyg as gay or lbian.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

Some of this stigma is rooted notns that people are eher gay or straight, and msagg durg the 20th century that foced on blogil “born this way” arguments for gay rights. ”But bisexual adults are much ls likely than gays and lbians to be “out” to the important people their liv, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center analysis of survey data om Stanford Universy.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

The first time, Gallup also asked rponnts to dite their precise sexual orientatn, as opposed to rpondg "y" or "no" to whether they intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or poll found that more than half of LGBT adults (54. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007.