What Percentage of the Populatn is Gay [Updated May 2023]

Contents:

• AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR YOUTH THE JUVENILE JTICE SYSTEM
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP

In the spir of batg stereotyp by reclaimg and celebratg them, BBDO NY Art Director Jam Kuczynski and illtrator Pl Tuller have created a “Gui to Gay Stereotyp, ” a seri of silk screened imag pturg the sence of your neighborhood gay posters, released this week as we head to Pri season, celebrate the recent Supreme Court cisn on DOMA. Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was lled the “greatt gay victory” of the time: succsfully phg members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the official classifitn of mental illns, the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM). The classifitn of mental illns was born om the legacy of multiple systems of power: the Amerin legal system crimalized homosexual behavr; feral and state ernments had not yet dified protectns for queer and trans people seekg employment and hog; and an sistence on heteronormative genr rol stigmatized anyone who viated om their role as a “woman” or a “man.

Dpe the persistence of stereotyp that portray lbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several s of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream medil and mental health anizatns this untry to nclu that the orientatns reprent normal forms of human experience. Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life. The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny.

If they are a heterosexual relatnship, their experienc may be que siar to those of people who intify as heterosexual unls they choose to e out as bisexual; that se, they will likely face some of the same prejudice and discrimatn that lbian and gay dividuals enunter. This gui highlights a wi range of bt practic – everythg om big picture improvements to ontle fix – that juvenile jtice facili n implement to advance the safety and well-beg of a particularly vulnerable populatn: Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) youth.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR YOUTH THE JUVENILE JTICE SYSTEM

We acknowledge and support the rights to self-intify and self-termatn, which should be central to any work examg pennt variabl ed to pare methods clud recment method (onle vers -person), three mographic factors (age < 30 years vers olr, gay inty vers other, and at least some tertiary tn vers none), and eight sexual health ditors (greater than 20 male sexual partners the 6 months prr to survey, STI ttg or treatment the year prr to survey, any STI diagnosis the year prr to survey, lifetime HIV ttg, HIV ttg the year prr to survey, any HIV posive tt rult, any ndomls anal terurse (CAI) wh sual partners the 6 months prr to survey, and any ndomls anal terurse wh regular partners the six months prr to survey).

Although sexual attractns and behavrs are generally unrstood as rangg along a ntuum om exclively heterosexual to exclively homosexual (Ksey et al., 1948, 1953), sexual orientatn is often discsed acrdg to three ma tegori, pecially when is fed terms of inty: (1) heterosexualy (for dividuals who intify as, for example, “straight” or whose sexual or romantic attractns and behavrs foc exclively or maly on members of the other sex); (2) homosexualy (for dividuals who intify as, for example, “gay, ” “lbian, ” or “homosexual” or whose attractns and behavrs foc exclively or maly on members of the same sex); and (3) bisexualy (for dividuals who intify as, for example, “bisexual” or whose sexual or romantic attractns and behavrs are directed at members of both sex to a signifint gree). Overall, lbians appear to display greater variabily than gay men the age at which they rell reachg var velopmental “ton, ” such as awarens of same-sex attractns, experience of same-sex fantasi, and first pursu of same-sex sexual ntact (for a review, see Diamond, 2008). Data om a 2005 natnal probabily sample reveal that gay men (n = 241) relled regnizg their homosexual orientatn at a signifintly earlier average age than lbians (n = 152) or bisexual women (n = 159), while the average age for bisexual men (n = 110) was between that of women and gay men (Herek et al., 2010), pared wh that of men, women's sexualy may be more likely to be shaped and altered by cultural, social, and suatnal fluenc over time (Bmeister, 2000).

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

Another study, nducted Hoton, Texas, wh a nonprobabily sample of 1, 494 black, Lato, Asian, and whe men and women, found that nrdance rat between sexual behavr and inty varied across racial and ethnic groups (Ross et al., 2003) data dite that black men who have sex wh men are ls likely than whe men who have sex wh men to self-intify as gay (Chu et al., 1992; Doll et al., 1992; Goldbm et al., 1998; Kramer et al., 1980; McKirnan et al., 1995, 2001; Montgomery et al., 2003; O'Leary et al., 2007; Torian et al., 2002) and are more likely to engage sexual behavr wh both mal and femal (Flor et al., 2009). Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual HistoryInversn, Homosexualy, and the Origs of Contemporary Notns of Sexual OrientatnAlthough heterosexual and homosexual behavrs and attractns are ubiquo across human societi, the ia that dividuals n be meangfully fed or tegorized terms of their patterns of sexual attractn and behavr emerged science and medice only the neteenth century. This dual stigma historilly attached to homosexual behavrs and persons has, as noted earlier, shaped the experienc of many people livg today and has fluenced many ntemporary stutns that affect before Frd articulated his theory of sexualy, theologil doctre and secular law sought to regulate sexual behavrs and attached punishments to a variety of sex acts that were nonprocreative or occurred outsi of marriage.

In the 1940s, however, Amerin psychoanalysts broke wh Frd, and the view that homosexualy was an illns soon beme the domant posn Amerin psychoanalysis and psychiatry (Bayer, 1987) by the begng of World War II, sodomy laws ntued to crimalize same-sex sexual behavr, even when occurred a private settg between nsentg adults, while psychiatry and psychology generally regard homosexualy as an illns. G., Bebe, 1990; Black et al., 2000; Mennger, 1948) the need for recs dimished durg the war's wang years, however, polici prohibg homosexual personnel were more vigoroly enforced, and many gay men and lbians received unsirable discharg as sexual psychopaths (Bebe, 1990).

Senate mtee issued a 1950 report ncludg that homosexuals were not qualified for feral employment and that they reprented a secury risk bee they uld be blackmailed about their sexualy (Submtee on Invtigatns of the Senate Commtee on Expendur the Executive Departments, 1950).