Amerins Greatly Overtimate Percent Gay, Lbian U.S.

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
• AMERINS HAVE NO IA HOW FEW GAY PEOPLE THERE ARE
• U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN
• GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT
• AMERINS GREATLY OVERTIMATE PERCENT GAY, LBIAN U.S.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual.

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.

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. 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.

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.

AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

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. 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.

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

AMERINS HAVE NO IA HOW FEW GAY PEOPLE THERE ARE

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.

U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN

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. ”The Twter acunt Gays Agast Groomers alerted s 343, 000 followers July 5 to a notable figure: “New data fds that there has been a 4000% spike stunts that intify as non-bary New Jersey.

However, overall, Black LGB and transgenr adults reported ncealg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and experiencg ternalized homophobia or transphobia to some gree.

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. An timated 3.5% of adults the Uned Stat intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual and an timated 0.3% of adults are transgenr. Among adults who intify as LGB, bisexuals prise a slight majory (1.8% pared to 1.7% who intify as lbian or gay).

GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT

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.

AMERINS GREATLY OVERTIMATE PERCENT GAY, LBIAN U.S.

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).

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 bisexual.The 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).

This is spl nearly evenly between lbian/gay and bisexual intified dividuals, 1.7% and 1.8%, rpectively.