How Many People are Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr? - Williams Instute

Contents:

• BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE FAR LS LIKELY THAN GAY MEN AND LBIANS TO BE ‘OUT’ TO THE PEOPLE THEIR LIV
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
• LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• SERI: GAY MEN AND LBIANS UNR THE NAZI REGIME

BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE FAR LS LIKELY THAN GAY MEN AND LBIANS TO BE ‘OUT’ TO THE PEOPLE THEIR LIV

Bisexuals, who acunt for about four--ten LGBT adults the Uned Stat, stand apart om gay and lbian adults many ways, such as the fact that they are ls likely to view their sexual orientatn as central to their inty.

Bisexual adults are much ls likely than gays and lbians to be “out” to the important people their liv, acrdg to a new Pew Rearch Center analysis of recently released survey data om Stanford Universy. Meanwhile, all the rponnts the survey who intified as straight were oppose-sex relatnships, and nearly all (94%) of those who intified as gay or lbian were same-sex relatnships.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud.

Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual. In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL.

HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ PEOPLE

The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male. Not only was a touchg moment, but powerfully brought back the '80s, when lbians and gay men were actually uned , whout any of the rifts that have long characterized those two strands of the muny.

Not many lbians had been stricken wh the disease, but the women were still out force, fiercely reactg to the LGBT vastatn and the need to rally for than gays vers lbians, beme gays and lbians vers the homophobic other, and I thought the batn would rock our brother/sisterhood the time, a gay pund wrote a stgg magaze article wonrg why lbians were so volved ACT UP, but I never wanted to qutn , elated that they had joed the surgence while helpg create a unified ont. The tth is that so many partyg gay men are foced on beg wh mirror imag that they shun their Sapphic sisters, feelg no more nnectn wh them than they do wh anybody 's not jt at the bars.

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

Gay guys (jt like straight guys) are obvly too driven by their genals, and nversely, the prence of men uld remd lbians of the patriarchal society that's been rammed down their throats and ma them numb. Peter Staley--one of ACT UP's founrs--agre that "ACT UP was probably our most empowered moment of gay men and lbians workg together, " but he don't feel that was the end of the uny. ) Northrop feels the severe lack of chemistry I'm talkg about is a male/female thg more than a gay/lbian one, and fact she thks the absence of a sexual charge between lbians and gays mak easier for them to e together than their straight unterparts.

I don't even hear dismissive remarks about "dyk" anymore--lbians are simply not on many gay mal' radar at all, unls they turn up as an ocsnal Fire Island DJ or an awards show host. "A one-person Pri para, Lady Gaga brought her lavish gay pep rally the Art Pop Ball to Atlantic Cy this weekend, where a bunch of prs people thrilled to the mix of Sid & Marty Krofft-style theatrics and yay-gay stayed at the sleek Bata, dropped by the r club HQ, then ded at Caar's Palace's Nero rtrant, where Atlantic Cy's openly gay mayor Don Guardian told me he saw 100 twks led up on the boardwalk when he was ridg his bike that morng and realized, "Lady Gaga! " The edge of glory said that sce she played the town six years ago, so much has changed terms of gay visibily and acceptance--"So we're here to celebrate the kgdom of the Ltle Monsters and the force you've been along the way.

Although n sometim seem like one type of gay person is shown over and over aga the media or on TV, gay people aren’t tomatilly effemate, and lbian women aren’t tomatilly mascule – fact, those stereotyp leave out a lot of other personali and characteristics. There may be, for stance, some gay people that scribe themselv as more mascule, feme, or genr-fluid, while lbian dividuals may siarly exprs themselv wh varyg gre of masculy, femy, or genr-fluidy. 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.

IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?

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.

LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS

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 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.

In a now-leted tweet that was screenshotted by celebry gossip and news se The Jasme Brand and posted to Instagram, the 45-year-old crooner, who is bt known for his early '90s classics like "Can We Talk" and "I'm Ready, " reportedly nfirmed that he is gay to a fan. "My mom keeps tellg me Luther Vandross, Teddy Penrgrass, and Tev Campbell were gay, " the fan's tweet read, to which Campbell simply quote-tweeted and said, "Tev is, " acpanied by the rabow flag and sunglass emojis.

Then Augt, durg an terview wh People Magaze's Every Day podst, the R&B star remisced about his s-long reer the mic/entertament dtry so far, while also givg listeners a rare glimpse to his personal life and nfirmg that he do intify as a gay man. The popular and credibly private vio game streamer, who is most known for playg Mecraft and for streamg on Twch, me out an April Twter Q&A wh his followers when he was asked by a fan what his favore moment the gay, romantic, teen Netflix seri Heartstopper was.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

""For those nfed basilly I gus I am technilly unlabeled as the way I have kda always gone around life jt beg attracted to whoever I am attracted to jt so happens that most of them le up wh a 'certa type' you uld say, " he later clarified, sayg that he is "okay wh the gay label.

Though the pop sger has been open about her sexualy for years ( 2019 she told Attu that she was bisexual and an open relatnship), she took to Instagram June to celebrate Pri Month and to talk even further about her sexualy, remdg everyone that she is, fact, a queer in who is "not gay and not straight.

"Now is a good time for me bee the Commonwealth Gam is a month's time, and there's gog to be a lot of people watchg that, and there are so many untri the Commonwealth where beg gay is illegal. The 25-year-old athlete and former Richmond Flyg Squirrels player revealed to his fans and followers that while he is no longer playg for the team, which is part of the San Francis Giants system, he is thankful for the time he had and isn't givg up on his love of baseball, pecially as an out, gay man.

SERI: GAY MEN AND LBIANS UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Recent survey data the US and the UK revealed that the proportn of the populatn who intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual has risen slightly and that this trend is particularly salient among the youngt generatn: Generatn Z. In the UK, only a slight majory of Gen Z members dite that they have an exclively heterosexual attractn, while the US, a Gallup poll dit that roughly 15% of Gen Z intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual – pared to 7. 9% of the Baby Boomers surveyed the US dited they were not heterosexual, many more may have still had same-sex experienc throughout their lifpan, but they simply do not firmly intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

There is, however, also a much darker explanatn for why we see fewer dividuals om past generatns intifyg as lbian, gay, or bisexual today than we do om the younger generatns. While is impossible to ever have accurate populatn statistics on a hidn populatn, is timated that at least 10% of gay men the Uned Stat between the ag of 25 and 44 had died by 1995.