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

Contents:

• LBIANS MORE ACCEPTED THAN GAY MEN AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY FDS
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE FAR LS LIKELY THAN GAY MEN AND LBIANS TO BE ‘OUT’ TO THE PEOPLE THEIR LIV
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

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

A new study explorg the attus toward nonheterosexual men and women 23 Wtern and non-Wtern untri found lbians are more accepted than gay men around the world. “We found that gay men are disliked more than lbian women every untry we tted, ” acrdg to the study, which was nducted by three New York Universy psychologists and published the December issue of the journal Social Psychology and Personaly mori face pervasive discrimatn and hostily globally, wh same-sex sexual activy still illegal approximately 70 untri. ” The nverse is also largely te: For stance Ameri, llege stunts who endorsed “tradnal genr arrangements” were more likely to report negative attus toward gays, lbians and Lra Bettsoli, the study's lead thor, said she and her lleagu were surprised "at the nsistency of the relatnship between genr norm endorsement and sexual prejudice.

""Even though there were some non-Wtern untri that did not nform to the pattern, the majory of untri did, " she said a, untri cludg Cha and India, the survey found that strong genr norms are actually associated wh greater tolerance of homosexualy — that is, people wh the strongt beliefs how men and women should behave were more likely to tolerate homosexualy, the oppose of the Wt, cludg the Ameris and Wtern report speculat that some Eastern untri, “both genr norms and nonheterosexualy are nsired ‘Wtern’ (or, perhaps, palist) ncepts, and those who are pro-Wtern are more likely to feel favorable toward both.

”In all 23 untri studied, the report found "gay men are rated more negatively than lbian women, ” and that trend was almost entirely driven by the views of men, except Poland, Hungary and Rsia, where women also assigned gay men high negative ratgs. In the Uned Stat, men who are anti-gays largely direct their prejudice toward gay men, while women who are anti-gays direct their prejudice more equally toward gay men and gay women, the study found. “In other words, harborg prejudicial attus toward sexual mori is part of the social nstctn of what means to ‘be a man’” many Wtern untri, acrdg to the January 2019, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s first gui to issu specific to men and boys warned that “tradnal masculy iology” — what some characterized as “toxic masculy” — “has been shown to lim mal’ psychologil velopment, nstra their behavr, rult genr role stra and genr role nflict and negatively fluence mental health and physil health” and lked to both homophobia and snapshotThe study also shed light on some ntours of global homophobia.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

”It also placed Amerin attus toward lbian, gay and bisexual people the ntext of other untri around the world: Argenta, Atralia, Belgium, Canada, Great Bra, Spa and Swen all have more posive attus toward sexual mori than do Amerins. Rponnts Brazil, Cha, Hungary, Japan, Pe, Poland, Rsia, South Ai, South Korea and Turkey all reported more negative attus toward gay people than the U.

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.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

The group furly brought gay men, lbians, and others together, all uned the war agast the powers-that-be for ignorg the horror of the AIDS epimic. 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.

At queer nightclubs, the ia of a mixed crowd died long ago, and fact, not only do gays and lbians have separate hangouts, but those plac are for nich wh the groups. 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.

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.

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

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. While there may be some jobs that tend to have more gay or lbian people them than others, often has to do wh the cultural acceptance they might fd that particular field. Not bee they are bad, or homophobic, or transphobic… but bee the reali are not their own lived experience, or bee workg alongsi the groups may be a newer experience for them.

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

Published the European Journal of Social Psychology earlier this year, the study's thors wre that the fdgs, "add to the unrstandg of the unique bias bisexual people face by showg that perceived attractn patterns may unrlie the labellg of bisexual men as 'actually gay. 'An analysis nducted by the rearch team also found that heterosexual, lbian, and gay participants all perceived bisexual men as more attracted to men than to women.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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. 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). 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.

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

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.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

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. Th, any attempt to “unt” the number of gay men the Baby Boomer or Gen X generatns needs to nsir the number of people who are simply no longer alive to answer the qutn. In the US data, the percentage of dividuals intifyg as lbian or gay has creased, but not nearly as much as the percentage of those intifyg as bisexual (.