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Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• DO SOUTH CAROLA HAVE TWO GAY U.S. SENATORS?
• HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual. Explore Gallup qutns and trends about gay and lbian rights on Gallup's Topics A-Z page.

6% of Amerins are gay or lbian. Women, young adults have the hight timatns of gay populatn. 6%) are gay or lbian.

Gay populatn, rerdg siar average timat of 24. Amerins' Estimatns of the Percentage of Gay People the U. Jt your bt gus, what percent of Amerins today would you say are gay or lbian?

DO SOUTH CAROLA HAVE TWO GAY U.S. SENATORS?

Amerins' timate of the proportn of gay people the U.

HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.

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.

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

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. Still, all available timat of the actual gay and lbian populatn the U.

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.