The aim is to prent updated timat of the size of Atralia’s sexual mory adult populatn (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti). No timate of this populatn is currently available om the Atralian Bure of Statistics, and very ltle is available om other sourc. We obtaed data on sexual mory inti om three data llectns of two natnal surveys of recent years. Combg averaged prevalence rat om the surveys wh official Estimated Rint Populatn data, we produce timat of Atralia’s sexual mory populatn for recent years. Acrdg to percentag averaged across the three survey datasets, 3.6% of mal and 3.4% of femal scribed themselv wh a mory sexual inty. When applied to Estimated Rint Populatns, this giv a sexual mory populatn at ag 18 + Atralia of 599,500 2011 and 651,800 2016. Populatn timat were also produced by sex and broad age group, revealg larger numbers and higher sexual mory percentag the younger age groups, and smaller numbers and percentag the olst age group. Separate populatn timat were also prepared for lbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti.
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HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY THE WORLD?
* percentage of gay couples in australia *
In 2005, 2008 and 2011, rponnts age 15 years and over were asked to rate their level of agreement or disagreement wh the statement “Homosexual upl should have the same rights as heterosexual upl do” on a sle rangg om (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly 1 shows the proportn of the rponnts who dited some level of agreement (i. Agreements refer to the ratgs of 5–7 on a sle om (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly agree wh the statement that homosexual upl should have the same rights as heterosexual HILDA (2005, 2008, 2011)The support for equal rights between same-sex upl and oppose-sex upl has creased steadily om 38% 2005, to 45% 2008 to 51% proportn of rponnts who neher agreed nor disagreed wh the statement remaed stable across the three time pots, at 15– were more likely to endorse equal rights for same-sex upl. It then prents populatn timat for the sexual mory adult populatn of Atralia 2011 and 2016, cludg by age group, and by sexual inty (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti) textData sourcData on the proportns of the populatn wh a specific sexual inty were sourced om three data llectns om two reprentative natnal hoehold surveys, namely the General Social Survey (GSS), and wav 12 and 16 of the Hoehold, Ine And Labour Dynamics Atralia (HILDA) Survey.
Then a small nstrag adjtment was ma to ensure the age-specific timat summed to the overall 18 + timate:$${P}_{s, a}^{M} ={P}_{s, a}^{M}\left[pr\right] \ac{{P}_{s, 18+}^{M}}{\sum_{a}{P}_{s, a}^{M}\left[pr\right]}$$Third, timat of the 18 + populatn by sex by dividual sexual inty tegory were lculated:$${P}_{s, 18+}^{m}\left[pr\right]={ P}_{s, 18+}^{ERP} \ac{1}{3}\left({p}_{s, 18+}^{m, GSS}+{p}_{s, 18+}^{m, HILDA-12}+{p}_{s, 18+}^{m, HILDA-16}\right), $$where \(m\) refers to gay/lbian, bisexual or other. For mal, the gay populatn was larger than the bisexual populatn (182, 100 and 77, 900 rpectively), while for femal the oppose was the se (104, 400 lbian and 137, 800 bisexual) 3 The timated sexual mory populatn of Atralia, 2011 and 2016Full size tableDiscsnThis paper has prented new timat of Atralia’s sexual mory populatn based on official Estimated Rint Populatns and reprentative surveys which llect rmatn on sexual inty.
Such arguments are not based on a prehensive asssment of the evince for this claim and are ually rmed by relig or iologil beliefs about what nstut a rearch paper scrib the diverse characteristics of same-sex parented fai Atralia, their support needs and experienc, and the challeng they may face given the stigma and discrimatn often attached to homosexualy and enuntered by some same-sex upl. In this report, "same-sex parented fai" is ed when the pot beg ma is relevant to all non-heterosexual fai, and "lbian-parented" or "gay-parented" when the pot relat to fai head by female and male same-sex upl or sole parents, is also important to note that "lbian" and "gay" are not universally ed as self-scriptors by women and men who are parentg the ntext of a same-sex relatnship or inty.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
In Private Liv 2 - a recent natnal Atralian survey of 3, 835 LGBT people's relatnships, health and wellbeg - about 11% of gay male participants dited that they were parents or step-parents, or had some other kd of parent-like relatnship wh children, as opposed to 33% of lbian participants (Leonard et al., 2012). Consirably more bisexual men than gay men the study reported havg children (40% vs 11%), wh bisexual men also more likely than bisexual women (40% vs 25%) to report havg parented fai are characteristilly diverse wh regard to mo of nceptn or fay formatn, and fay stcture (see Anrssen, Aie, & Ytteroy, 2002; Biblarz & Savci, 2010; Gunn & Surte, 2009; Power et al., 2010; Tasker & Patterson, 2007; Weeks et al., 2001). Further to this, and for a range of reasons, very few Atralian children bee available for adoptn beyond their fai of orig (see Higgs, 2012) Work, Love and Play study (Power et al., 2010) of 445 Atralian and New Zealanr lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) parents is the largt this untry unrtaken to date and found there are six major fay typ:a two-parent same-sex uple-based fay;fai which a lbian uple were the primary parents but a known sperm donor lived separately and had volvement the children's liv;fai which a lbian or gay man were still -parentg wh an ex-heterosexual partner;separated same-sex fai where women or men were -parentg wh their ex-same-sex partner;sole parent fai; andmulti-parent fai, ually a gay male uple and a lbian uple raisg children together om birth across two hoeholds.
Children may have been nceived the ntext of prev heterosexual relatnships, or raised om birth by a -parentg gay or lbian uple or sgle tentnally planned lbian or gay parented fai, is mon for children to be nceived through assisted reproductive technologi (ART) such as donor sematn (DI), -vro fertilizatn (IVF) and surrogacy. Women's fathers, brothers and heterosexual or gay male iends are known to be valued as "male role mols" for children, due to lbian parents' sire for children to have accs to diverse adult male and female social works (Borthwick & Bloch, 1993; Gartrell et al., 1996; Goldberg & Allen, 2007; Wakelg & Bradstock, 1995) msag: Lbian-parented faiLbian -parentg upl tend to divi their hoehold labour and child re rponsibili more equably than heterosexual upl.