More Brons than ever before intify as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), meang the natn's gay and bi muny grew by more than 15% a year to reach 1.4 ln people, the latt ernment figur showed on Thursday.
Contents:
- OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
- MORE BRONS THAN EVER BEFORE INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL
- MAJOR NEW ANALYSIS HAS REVEALED HOW MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE THERE ARE
- IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
- GAYT PLAC IN MASSACHETTS FOR 2020
OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
2%) intified wh an LGB+ orientatn (“Gay or Lbian”, “Bisexual” or “Other sexual orientatn”). The data will meet the needs for better qualy rmatn on the LGB+ populatn (“gay or lbian”, “bisexual” or “other sexual orientatn”) for monorg and supportg anti-discrimatn duti unr the Equaly Act qutn was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over.
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MORE BRONS THAN EVER BEFORE INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL
6% Wal) English regn wh the hight proportn of people who intified wh a LGB+ orientatn (“gay or lbian”, “bisexual”, or “other sexual orientatn”) was London (4. 2% scribed their sexual orientatn as gay or lbian, 1.
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MAJOR NEW ANALYSIS HAS REVEALED HOW MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE THERE ARE
5% - 748, 000 - intify as gay or lbian, and 624, 000 (1.
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0%) chose not to disclose their genr who did answer were able to select om optns cludg heterosexual, gay, lbian and bisexual. However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight. The UK’s gay populatn has been mapped by the Office for Natnal Statistics (ONS) for the first time, revealg ncentratns of lbian, gay and bisexual people om central London to ral ONS – the ernment’s statistics body – has mapped how many people told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, broken down by unty and by lol thory, for an experimental dataset verg 2013 to of the fdgs are unsurprisg: six of the 10 lol thori wh the hight relative lbian, gay and bisexual populatns are ner London, cludg Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark, while Brighton and Manchter also make the the unty-by-unty data puts ral Devon slightly ahead of East Ssex (excludg the unary thory of Brighton and Hove, which is unted separately om the rt of the unty).
IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
3% of Devon’s populatn told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, slightly ahead of the 1. There was a gay men’s group, so there had always been ltle groups, but there wasn’t a Pri event, so part of our missn was to crease visibily, ” he add: “It might be that people are startg to feel like they n live ral lotns and not jt London, Brighton and Manchter, and maybe part of is about feelg more nfint to report . ”Devon is largely welg for gay people, he said, but this is not universal.
”In other parts of the untry, very few people are tellg rearchers they are gay, lbian or bisexual. 4% of people intify as gay, lbian or bisexual, wh a lower-end range as low as one 1, 000 people scribg themselv to rearchers as such.
For other unti, such as Buckghamshire and Suffolk, there was too ltle data available to produce robt timat, the ONS ONS created the dataset by bg data on 560, 000 dividuals om three years of the Annual Populatn Survey, which gathers data through nfintial phone or -person allowed the anisatn to break down the rults to a more lol level than prev reports, which foced on Guasp, head of rearch at LGBT mpaign group Stonewall, said: “It’s enuragg to see rearch efforts to ga a better unrstandg of the lbian, gay, bi and trans populatn and intify the diverse needs of different LGBT muni Bra.
GAYT PLAC IN MASSACHETTS FOR 2020
”By a slenr marg, Northern Ireland was the untry of the UK found to have the hight proportn of gay men – an timated 1.
“Lots of out people would have difficulty intifyg themselv as gay to someone om the ernment who’s knockg on the door … ’s always gog to be a particular challenge for some people to answer that qutn hontly. ”But although the laws Stormont lag some way behd the rt of the UK – was the last untry to crimalise gay sex, and gay marriage remas illegal – attus Northern Ireland have progrsed rapidly, Boyd said.
”The discrepancy between gay men and lbians the data do not reflect his experienc. LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - More Brons than ever before intify as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), meang the natn’s gay and bi muny grew by more than 15% a year to reach 1. “People aged 16 to 24 ntue to be the most likely to intify as LGB, however the proportn of olr adults intifyg as LGB, while much smaller, is also creasg, ” McClure add a were almost twice as likely as women to scribe themselv as gay, the ONS found.