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HOW MANY PEOPLE IRELAND ARE GAY?
In a global survey nducted 2023, three percent of rponnts clared to be homosexual, gay, or lbian. * gay statistics ireland *
Homosexualy & Bisexualy. The Tackle HIV survey of over 6000 adults across the six natns (cludg 1, 000 Ireland) showed that only 66% and 63% of people asked said they were pletely acceptg of homosexualy and bisexualy rpectively. In Ireland, 74% and 72% said they were pletely acceptg and supportive of homosexualy and bisexualy rpectively.
And, more specifilly, how fortable are gays and lbians about disclosg their sexual orientatn? When the Irish Tim/Ipsos MRBI Fay Valu poll asked people to scribe their sexualy, one 25 – or 4 per cent – of rponnts scribed themselv as gay, lbian or bisexual.
One reason is that a figure of 10 per cent for the proportn of homosexuals the populatn has persisted as a wily accepted gustimate. Although the reports broke long-held taboos on reportg sexual orientatn, Ksey’s methodology has been strongly crised for over-reprentg the gay and lbian populatn.
* gay statistics ireland *
5 per cent of people were gay, lbian or bisexual. In Atralia a natnal sample put the figure at 3 per cent; the US the most wily ced natnal poll recent years dit that homosexualy rat are 3.
Homosexualy and abortn were crimal offens. The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was found the 1970s, but s early activi took place agast an often hostile social and polil background. Homophobic attacks were relatively rare, but the murrs of Declan Flynn and Charl Self the 1980s were attributed to homophobic vlence.
In 1988, David Norris—then a member of the Seanad, the upper hoe of parliament—won a se before the European Court of Human Rights which led to the crimalizatn of homosexualy 1993.