Amerins Vastly Overtimate Size of Gay Populatn, Gallup Poll Reveals

Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

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.

Jt your bt gus, what percent of Amerins today would you say are gay or lbian? 5% of Amerins are LGBT, based on rponnts' self-intifitn as beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. In 2002, Gallup asked Amerins to timate the proportn of men and women who are gay or lbian, rpectively.

The rults were nearly intil, wh an average timate that 21% of men and 22% of women were gay.

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

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. " Th, Gallup's methodology is not the only way to timate the percentage of the populatn that is gay or lbian.

Still, all available timat of the actual gay and lbian populatn the U. 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.

Overtimatns of the natn's gay populatn may part be due to the group's outsized visibily.

AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

7%) are gay or lbian -- the hight of any key subgroup, and much higher than men's perceptns (17. 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. Even the groups offerg the lowt average timat of gays and lbians the U.

It is, therefore, possible that Amerins' perceptns of the gay populatn may be fluenced by the greater reprentatn they see among young people. The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

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

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. 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.

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.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

They need at that time to nvce people that the gay people actually existed and fact that they were kd of everywhere. 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.

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. A new Gallup poll suggts most Amerins vastly overtimate how large the gay muny is the Uned Stat.

Amerins have ntuoly overtimated the size of the gay populatn recent years—timatg 24. 5% of Amerins self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to an earlier Gallup study.

GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT

"There are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat. 7 percent) are gay or lbian, the hight of any mographic, and much higher than men thought (17.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

4 percent) also noted that Democrats and pennts timated about a quarter of Amerins are gay, while Republins gused a b lower (18. A look at how big Amerins thk the gay muny is, broken down by key mographics. 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. A new Gallup poll reveals most Amerins overtimate the size of the gay populatn.

) 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. A 2017 GLAAD study found that 20 percent of Millennials intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. 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.