Gay girl’s gui to the 2023 Women’s World Cup - Outsports

Contents:

• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

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

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.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Conversely, gay men prise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men seven of the ne surveys. 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. 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).

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

The UK Integrated Hoehold Survey found the proportn to be two-thirds lbian/gay vers one-third bisexual. 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.

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).

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

In addn to beg able to intify whether they are lbian, gay, bisexual or straight, rponnts may also specifilly intify whether they are transgenr. In olr age groups, exprsed bisexual preference is not signifintly more mon than exprsed gay or lbian preference. At a time when Amerins are creasgly supportive of equal rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people, a growg percentage of Amerins intify themselv as LGBT.

In 2002, Gallup asked Amerins to timate the proportn of men and women who are gay or lbian, rpectively. 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.

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.

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 number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported.

Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out. Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments.

StatisticsAmerin men and women who intify as homosexual, bisexual, or transgenr, by stateShare of French people who have ever felt unfortable around LGBT people 2019Sexual orientatn of Amerins 2013Transgenr intifitn Lat Ameri 2016, by untryFaiary wh the LGBT muny Lat Ameri 2016Lat Ameri: murrs of trans & genr-diverse people 2008-2021Opns on adoptn of children by transgenr people Belgium 2017Opns on unique spirual gifts of transgenr people India 2017Opns on whether transgenr people hold a special place Japane society 2017Opns on physil disabily of transgenr people India 2017Opn on llege male trans athlet petg the U. In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey shocked the world by announcg that 10% of the male populatn is gay.

A 1993 Jan Report timated that ne percent of men and five percent of women had more than "ocsnal" homosexual relatnships. But when Gallup asked Amerins for their bt timate of the Amerin gay and lbian populatn, the rults ma all the figur mentned above look nservative.

In Augt 2002*, Gallup asked Amerins, an open-end format, to timate the percentage of Amerin men and the percentage of Amerin women who are homosexual. Male rponnts tend to give lower timat of both the male and female homosexual populatn than female rponnts do. Before the 1980s, the few reprentatns of homosexualy popular culture tend to nsist of potentially dangero social viants (thk Norman Bat Psycho).

Sce then, however, the portrayal of gay characters pop culture have bee far more numero and mostly posive. In the last 10 years, the number of Amerins sayg they feel homosexualy should be nsired an acceptable alternative liftyle has gone om 38% (June 1992) to 51% (May 2002). "Seeg ourselv reflected posively enurag gay people to e out, " said Cathy Renna, news media director for the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD).

" If you doubt that Ellen, Rosie and others have had an effect on Amerins' acceptance of homosexualy, nsir this -- MTV and Showtime are about to lnch a ble channel directed at the homosexual market. Whether creased acceptance of homosexualy has led to an upsurge the number of posive media portrayals of gay characters or vice versa, one rult seems to be that Amerins now tend to overtimate the gay populatn Ameri. While most expert timat place Ameri's homosexual populatn at 10% or ls, Amerins tend to gus that the number is higher, around 20%.

*Rults based on telephone terviews wh 489 (for those timatg percentag of lbian women) and 518 (for those timatg percentag of gay men) nducted May 6-9, 2002. “Younger people are growg up an environment where beg gay, lbian or bisexual is not as taboo as was the past, ” Jon told NBC News. For lennial LGBTQs, those 24 to 39 2020, half said they were bisexual, or a ltle more than 5 percent of all lennial poll aligns wh growg support for LGBTQ rights evint recent Gallup surveys, cludg a June 2020 poll showg that 67 percent of Amerins back gay marriage.

In 2012, when Gallup started askg about sexual orientatn, only 53 percent believed same-sex upl should be allow to Gallup poll on sexual orientatn and genr inty provis more tail than past polls, which only asked rponnts to answer "y" or "no" on whether they intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.