Host Michel Mart and Judy Bradford of the Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health discs the Instute Of Medice's report fdgs, as well as the LGBT muny's most prevalent health issu. Demographer Gary Gat also jos the nversatn. He is bunkg famo sex rearcher Aled Ksey's claim that 10% of mal the U.S. are gay. He talks about this percentage, the real number of Ameri's LGBT people, and challeng to gatherg accurate data.
Contents:
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
- HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
- AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
- U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
Disver all facts and statistics on Homosexualy (gays and lbians) the U.S. on ! * what percentage of american men are gay *
Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual. In 2002, Gallup asked Amerins to timate the proportn of men and women who are gay or lbian, rpectively.
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.
HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * what percentage of american men 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.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
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. * what percentage of american men are gay *
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 . 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.
AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
Data analysis suggts that roughly 5 percent of Amerin men are gay, lns of whom are not out of the closet. * what percentage of american men are gay *
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.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
* what percentage of american men are gay *
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.
U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN
A new poll shows that a majory of Amerins believe at least one four people are gay or lbian. * what percentage of american men are gay *
My prelimary rearch dit that for every 20 percentage pots of support for gay marriage about one-and-a-half tim as many men om that state will intify openly as gay on Facebook. 6 percent of Amerin men tell anonymo surveys they are attracted to men and a tenth of gay men say that they do not tell most of the important people their liv. In stat where the stigma agast homosexualy remas strong, many more gay men are the closet than are ep the closet are the men?
Obvly, is possible for a gay man not to acknowledge his sexualy to Facebook or surveys but to still have healthy, open same-sex relatnships. But data om, one of the untry’s largt datg s, which has high rat of membership for both straight and gay men, reveals a siarly large number of missg gay men ls tolerant stat.
This suggts that the men are not only not tellg Facebook they are gay but are also not lookg for relatnships onle. Addnal evince that suggts that many gay men tolerant stat are eply the closet om a surprisg source: the Google search of married women.
Gallup fds 5.6% of U.S. adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, wh the majory of them sayg they are bisexual. * what percentage of american men are gay *
In the Uned Stat, of all Google search that beg “Is my hband..., ” the most mon word to follow is “gay. In fact, 21 of the 25 stat where this qutn is most equently asked, support for gay marriage is lower than the natnal average. Among the stat wh the hight percentag are Kentucky, Louisiana and is, other words, a huge amount of secret sufferg the Uned Stat that n be directly attributed to tolerance of homosexualy.