U.S. adults timate that nearly one four Amerins (23.6%) are gay or lbian. Gallup has prevly found that Amerins have greatly overtimated the U.S. gay populatn.
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AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
For the first time, we know that some 1.3 ln kids, or roughly 8% of all high school stunts Ameri, report beg lbian, gay, or bisexual. * what percent of teens are gay *
2 percent as gay or lbian and 1. Among Christians the numbers were lower—but only slightly, wh jt unr 30 percent of Millennial Christians intifyg as portn of the populatn that scrib self as gay has varied over the years, om 10 percent, based on rearch by Aled Ksey and wily promoted by the Natnal Gay Task Force 1977, to ls than 6 percent a recent Gallup poll.
The Gallup survey nclud that one six Amerins ag 18-23 were gay, lbian, bisexual or 's poll is based on a samplg of 600 rponnts reprentg Millennials weighted for factors such as geographic lotn, race and genr who took an average of 17 mut each to answer 71 poll didn't ask directly whether the rponnt was gay or straight, askg stead to choose an answer to the qutn: "Thkg about your mments, would you scribe yourself as.... Also, a high percent of Millennial Christians (27 percent) and born-aga Millennial Christians (28 percent) scribe themselv as LGBTQ, even though many fah groups endorse only heterosexual marriage and are sometim dismissed as homophobic by gay rights the large number of Millennials who intify as LGBTQ is attentn-grabbg, Barna says what he found "really tertg is that 40 percent of them fall to the tegory of what we ll the 'don'ts;' they don't believe that God exists, they don't re if God exists. 3 ln kids, or roughly 8% of all high school stunts Ameri, report beg lbian, gay, or bisexual.
” Kann has been workg wh CDC data om high schoolers for 30 18% of lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts reported havg been raped at some pot their liv—more than three tim the rate of straight stunts. For s, while homosexualy was on the books as a mental disorr, the US turned a bld eye to the actual mental and physil health needs of LGBT people, while ntug to pathologize them—homophobia was basilly enshred the medil the 1970s, “gay people were nsired to be mentally ill, so no one was thkg about physil health, ” says Calyn Ryan, a clil social worker who has been workg on LGBT health issu for nearly 40 years California.