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percentage of gay military

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.

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NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE PREVALENCE TIMAT OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THE U.S. ARY

* percentage of gay military *

Ary who are gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex wh men (MSM) to rm the velopment of ary and other feral signWe analyzed data om the Natnal Surveys of Fay Growth to timate the number of U. Men who were gay, bisexual, or MSM, and who had served the ary, pared to those who did not serve.

We stratified g hierarchil tegori of gay, bisexual, and other MSM to pare proportns the ary and general populatn.

23% of men self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM among men who served the ary, pared to 4. 78% self-reported as gay among men who served the ary, pared to 2. ConclnsThe proportn of men who intified as a gay was lower the ary than the general populatn.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

IntroductnHistorilly, timat of the number of ary personnel who are gay or bisexual have been ed to evaluate the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy Uned Stat ary, and of same-sex marriage benefs for ary personnel by the Congrsnal Budget Office[1–5].

GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS

DADT was implemented 1994 to allow gay and bisexual men and women to serve the ary[6]. Yet the need remas for an accurate timate of the number of gay and bisexual ary personnel for the U.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* PERCENTAGE OF GAY MILITARY

Amerins Still Greatly Overtimate U.S. Gay Populatn .

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