Next year, for the first time, the Uned Stat cens will unt same-sex upl who intify themselv as spo. Prevly the people were intified as unmarried partners. Gut host Jennifer Ludn discs the effort and s implitns for the gay rights movement wh mographer Gary Gat; he's a senr rearch fellow at the UCLA School of Law, and a member of "Our Fai Count," a cens advocy mpaign for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.
Contents:
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
The cens survey, for example, asks rponnts to choose which bt reprents how they thk of themselv: “gay or lbian”; “bisexual”; “somethg else”; “I don’t know”; or “straight, that is not gay or lbian.
3 ln people England and Wal intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cens data has revealed for the first people aged 16 and over, more than 1. 5% - 748, 000 - intify as gay or lbian, and 624, 000 (1. 6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people.
7%) of people intifyg as "LGB+", - lbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual of the other lol thori the top 10 were Wal, Cardiff was the lol thory wh the biggt LGB+ populatn (5. Smaller surveys have dited that ls than 2% of the populatn of England and Wal currently intify as lbian or gay. 0%) chose not to disclose their genr who did answer were able to select om optns cludg heterosexual, gay, lbian and bisexual.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight.
GayPolics sat down wh two people eply volved makg sure the LGBT muny unrstands what has changed and why ’s important that our muny participat as fully as possible. For recent immigrants or dividuals who are foreign-born, they may have anxiety about their legal stat too, and that would be a ncern for batnal gay and lbian upl too.
In 2004, the Urban Instute first published a rpected “mappg” of same-sex uple hoeholds “The Gay & Lbian Atlas, ” -thored by Gary Gat and Jason Ost. Regrettably the Cens (and the Atlas) were not able to give any data about the liv or hoeholds of sgle gay men and lbians, or about bisexuals and transgenr dividuals. 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.