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Contents:
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * percent of lgbt *
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.
Number of untri that crimalize homosexualy 2022. Comg out as gay, lbian, or bisexual of fay member or iends 2022, by untry. 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.
5 percent as gay, 0.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
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. * percent of lgbt *
7% of LGBTQ rponnts intified as gay, 13.
6% of Amerins are gay or lbian. Women, young adults have the hight timatns of gay populatn.
6%) are gay or lbian. Gay populatn, rerdg siar average timat of 24.
* percent of lgbt *
Amerins' Estimatns of the Percentage of Gay People the U.
Jt your bt gus, what percent of Amerins today would you say are gay or lbian? Amerins' timate of the proportn of gay people the U.
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.
Gallup fds 5.6% of U.S. adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, wh the majory of them sayg they are bisexual. * percent of lgbt *
The rults were nearly intil, wh an average timate that 21% of men and 22% of women were gay. 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.
The percentage of Amerin adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr creased to 4.5% 2017 om 4.1% 2016 and 3.5% 2012. * percent of lgbt *
Overtimatns of the natn's gay populatn may part be due to the group's outsized visibily. Gay Populatn. 7%) are gay or lbian -- the hight of any key subgroup, and much higher than men's perceptns (17.
Gay populatn vary by age. 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. Amerins' Estimate of the Gay Populatn the U.