PoliFact | No, study did not fd that 80 percent of black men Atlanta are gay

Contents:

• ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• SEX SURVEY OF AMERIN MEN FDS 1% ARE GAY
• CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS

ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?

However, overall, Black LGB and transgenr adults reported ncealg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and experiencg ternalized homophobia or transphobia to some gree. The view that sexual inty may change might be ed to support therapy geared towards "nvertg" homosexuals to heterosexuals, an approach which was outlawed recently California (for mors), legislatn that is likely to spread. Belief that "homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice, " PT blogger Michael LaSala dit, is wrong and reprehensible.

So rults of new rearch on orientatn self-intifitn — “the largt sgle study of the distributn of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn the U. On rerd, ” which Gallup asked more than 120, 000 Amerins if they personally intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr — reviewed the New York Tim by opn lumnist Charl Blow, are bafflg. For example, Hispanics and Ain-Amerins have been far more opposed to gay marriage than wh are.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

It shows that the gay and lbian muny is more diverse than many believe, and shows that many young men of lor feel empowered to intify as they feel most fortable. Blow asks, "Could be that some men of lor have ls at stake fancially that uld be jeopardized by intifyg as gay than their whe unterparts? The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. A post on, headled, "80% of black men Atlanta are Homosexuals, study says, " claims that Geia State Universy stunts "began a study asssg the sexualy of the male populatn of the cy wh surprisg rults.

The study divid the populatn to the tegori "black, whe, Asian, and oreo, then divid them further to heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual. Upon pletn of the study, was found that 80% of the black men Atlanta, Geia are homosexual, " said the Jan.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

The post also claimed that the percentage of gay black men Atlanta is expected to be much higher "due to the large amount of men unwillg to openly adm to beg anythg other than straight our society. We did not fd a Geia State Universy study ncludg that 80 percent of black men Atlanta are gay. Fellow fact-checkers at Febary 2016 emed as false claims that a study found that 80 percent of black men Geia were gay.

published a story claimg 80 percent of black men Atlanta are gay, cg a nonexistent Geia State Universy study.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

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.

The rults were nearly intil, wh an average timate that 21% of men and 22% of women were gay. 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.

SEX SURVEY OF AMERIN MEN FDS 1% ARE GAY

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. But somewhere the exabyt of data that human begs create every day are answers to even the most challengg surveys, social works, pornographic search and datg s, I recently studied evince on the number of gay men.

While none of the data sourc are ial, they be to tell a nsistent least 5 percent of Amerin men, I timate, are predomantly attracted to men, and lns of gay men still live, to some gree, the closet.

The evince also suggts that a large number of gay men are married to are three sourc that n give timat of the openly gay populatn broken down by state: the cens, which asks about same-sex hoeholds; Gallup, which has fairly large-sample surveys for every state; and Facebook, which asks members what genr they are terted .

CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS

While the data sourc all measure different gre of openns, one rult is strikgly siar: All three suggt that the openly gay populatn is dramatilly higher more tolerant stat, fed g an timate by Nate Silver of support for same-sex marriage. On Facebook, for example, about 1 percent of men Mississippi who list a genr preference say that they are terted men; California, more than 3 percent there really so many fewer gay men livg ls tolerant stat? 1 percentage pots higher the least tolerant stat if everyone stayed percent of male high school stunts who intify themselv as gay on Facebook is also much lower ls tolerant areas.

Bee high school stunts are ls mobile than adults, this suggts that a gay exod om the areas is not a large factor. We n approach the qutn of whether tolerant areas actually have fewer gay men another way, too, by timatg the percent of search for pornography that are lookg for pictns of gay men. The would clu search for such terms as “gay porn” or “Rocket Tube, ” a popular gay pornographic se.

) While tolerant stat have a slightly higher percentage of the search, roughly 5 percent of pornographic search are lookg for pictns of gay men all stat. This aga suggts that there are jt about as many gay men ls tolerant stat as there are anywhere ls tolerant stat have siar percentag of gay men but far fewer openly gay men, there is a clear relatnship between tolerance and openns.