Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- AM I GAY?
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
- GAY COMMUNY PERDIC SURVEYS
- VLENT VICTIMIZATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL POPULATNS THE UNED STAT: FDGS FROM THE NATNAL CRIME VICTIMIZATN SURVEY, 2017–2018
AM I GAY?
The percentage of U.S. adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr has creased to 7.1%. This is driven by high LGBT self-intifitn, particularly as bisexual, among Generatn Z adults. * gay survey 2017 *
Gallup asks Amerins whether they personally intify as straight or heterosexual, lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr as part of the mographic rmatn llects on all U. Bisexual is the most mon LGBT stat among Gen Z, lennials, and Gen X, while olr Amerins are about as likely to say they are gay or lbian as to say they are bisexual.
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
Gallup fds 5.6% of U.S. adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, wh the majory of them sayg they are bisexual. * gay survey 2017 *
The young adults are g of age, cludg g to terms wh their sexualy or genr inty, at a time when Amerins creasgly accept gays, lbians and transgenr people, and LGBT dividuals enjoy creasg legal protectn agast discrimatn. 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. Rafael J., * a gay stunt California, told CAP that he “cid to apply to law schools only LGBT-safe ci or stat, ” nyg him the opportuny pursue his graduate tn at schools he might otherwise have applied to.
The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.
GAY COMMUNY PERDIC SURVEYS
* gay survey 2017 *
Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.
VLENT VICTIMIZATN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL POPULATNS THE UNED STAT: FDGS FROM THE NATNAL CRIME VICTIMIZATN SURVEY, 2017–2018
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. * gay survey 2017 *
Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai. In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial.
Gay Communy Perdic Surveys are surveys of gay men nducted 7 Atralian stat that monor sexual practic, dg e and ttg patterns for HIV & STIs * gay survey 2017 *
For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.
We have lnched a survey to unrstand the experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) people livg the UK. * gay survey 2017 *
Central and Eastern Europeans, however, are more divid on the subject, wh a median of 46% who say homosexualy should be accepted and 44% sayg should not be.