Gay Amerins: Government Begs LGBT Populatn Count

Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
• GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square.

”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer. This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat. Are far lower than what the public timat, and no measurement procre has produced any figur suggtg that more than one out of five Amerins are gay or lbian. Among polil partisans, Democrats and pennts timate that about a quarter of Amerins are gay or lbian, while the average approximatn among Republins is a b lower (18.

It is, therefore, possible that Amerins' perceptns of the gay populatn may be fluenced by the greater reprentatn they see among young people. 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. 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.

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. 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? ”The Twter acunt Gays Agast Groomers alerted s 343, 000 followers July 5 to a notable figure: “New data fds that there has been a 4000% spike stunts that intify as non-bary New Jersey.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

Twenty-one per cent of LGBTQ+ Amerins intify as gay, 14% lbian, 10% transgenr and 4% somethg one six Gen Z adults, or 15%, intify as bisexual. “The young adults [Generatn Z] are g of age, cludg g to terms wh their sexualy or genr inty, at a time when Amerins creasgly accept gays, lbians and transgenr people, and LGBT dividuals enjoy creasg legal protectn agast discrimatn, ” Gallup said. However, overall, Black LGB and transgenr adults reported ncealg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and experiencg ternalized homophobia or transphobia to some gree.

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. 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. 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.

AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

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).

The Natnal Survey of Fay Growth found rults that were sentially the oppose of the UK survey wh only 38% intifyg as lbian or gay pared to 62% intifyg as bisexual. The Natnal Survey of Sexual Health and Behavr and the Atralian Longudal Study of Health and Relatnships both found a majory of rponnts (55% and 59%, rpectively) intifyg as surveys show even greater nsistency differenc between men and women associated wh lbian/gay vers bisexual inty.

GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT

Wh the surveys, a larger actn of adults report same-sex attractns and behavrs than self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (see Figure 4). 4 percent) also noted that Democrats and pennts timated about a quarter of Amerins are gay, while Republins gused a b lower (18. In the 1940s, the Ksey Report helped flate the size of the gay populatn people's mds: Aled Ksey mataed sexualy was fluid, claimg that 13 percent of men were "predomately homosexual" for at least three years between ag 16 and 55.

He also reported that at least 37 percent of men and 20 percent of women had some same-sex experience between the begng of adolcence and old the 1970s, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Taskforce cnched Ksey's data and touted the statistic that 10 percent of the populatn was homosexual. ) Many people are still closeted to some gree, but Gallup reports "no measurement procre has produced any figur suggtg that more than one out of five Amerins are gay or lbian. Over one-fifth of LGBTQ rponnts, or 21 percent, are gay, 14 percent are lbian, 10 percent are transgenr and 4 percent intify as somethg else.

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual.

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

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.

5 percent of the populatn was heterosexual, while the remar of the populatn reported, intified as homosexual or asexual. 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.

Of those that do intify as LGBTQ, over 50 percent of them are bisexual and 24 percent are gay, while 11 percent are lbian. Compared to many untri, cludg Canada, Israel has a higher than average gay populatn when parg LGBTQ populatn by untry. The younger generatns are more likely to intify as gay or report as In many untri, admtg one's LGBTQ+ orientatn n put one's employment, acceptance by society, eligibily for certa social assistance programs, and even personal safety at risk.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

“For s our stggle has been to stop beg visible, ” says San Francis Supervisor Stt Wiener, an openly gay lawmaker who is proposg this data be llected the Cy by the Bay. When pollsters asked Amerins last year how they would intify on the Ksey Sle—a six pot ratg spanng om “exclively homosexual” to “exclively heterosexual”—about a third of lennials poted somewhere the “non-bary” middle, pared to about 8% of people over the age of 45. Any time you’ve read that there are an timated 65, 000 lbian, gay or bisexual people the ary on active duty––a figure ced by untls media outlets the n up to the 2010 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”––that’s his work.

At the time, he says, “You had plenty of policians who said, ‘I don’t have gay people my district’ or ‘Gay people don’t live here’. In heated polil battl all over the untry—largely over the e of public bathrooms—transgenr advot n be heard makg arguments about their very existence that echo on ma by gay and lbian Amerins s ago. In the 1970s, the gay liberatn movement was propelled by the still-popular–if not exactly rock solid–statistic that 1 every 10 people is gay.

“This is a perd when gay people are really tryg to claim their stat jt like any other mory, racial or relig, ” says Yale historian Gee Chncey.