Host Michel Mart and Judy Bradford of the Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health discs the Instute Of Medice's report fdgs, as well as the LGBT muny's most prevalent health issu. Demographer Gary Gat also jos the nversatn. He is bunkg famo sex rearcher Aled Ksey's claim that 10% of mal the U.S. are gay. He talks about this percentage, the real number of Ameri's LGBT people, and challeng to gatherg accurate data.
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AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * what percentage of people in the us are gay *
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.
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. * what percentage of people in the us are gay *
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? Amerins' timate of the proportn of gay people the U. 5% of Amerins are LGBT, based on rponnts' self-intifitn as beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
* what percentage of people in the us are gay *
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.