More teens the Uned Stat are reportg their sexual inty as gay, lbian or bisexual, natnwi surveys show.
Contents:
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
- MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS
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. * percentage of gay teens *
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.
Among Christians the numbers were lower—but only slightly, wh jt unr 30 percent of Millennial Christians intifyg as portn of the populatn that scrib self as gay has varied over the years, om 10 percent, based on rearch by Aled Ksey and wily promoted by the Natnal Gay Task Force 1977, to ls than 6 percent a recent Gallup poll. The Gallup survey nclud that one six Amerins ag 18-23 were gay, lbian, bisexual or 's poll is based on a samplg of 600 rponnts reprentg Millennials weighted for factors such as geographic lotn, race and genr who took an average of 17 mut each to answer 71 poll didn't ask directly whether the rponnt was gay or straight, askg stead to choose an answer to the qutn: "Thkg about your mments, would you scribe yourself as.... Also, a high percent of Millennial Christians (27 percent) and born-aga Millennial Christians (28 percent) scribe themselv as LGBTQ, even though many fah groups endorse only heterosexual marriage and are sometim dismissed as homophobic by gay rights the large number of Millennials who intify as LGBTQ is attentn-grabbg, Barna says what he found "really tertg is that 40 percent of them fall to the tegory of what we ll the 'don'ts;' they don't believe that God exists, they don't re if God exists.
Over one-fifth of LGBTQ rponnts, or 21 percent, are gay, 14 percent are lbian, 10 percent are transgenr and 4 percent intify as somethg else. 5 percent as gay, 0. Moral stance towards gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2022.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
Disver all facts and statistics on Homosexualy (gays and lbians) the U.S. on ! * percentage of gay teens *
Moral views on gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2001-2022. Victims of anti-homosexualy hate crim U.
MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS
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. * percentage of gay teens *
6% of Amerins are gay or lbian.
Women, young adults have the hight timatns of gay populatn. 6%) are gay or lbian.
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?
* percentage of gay teens *
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. 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. As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat.
" Th, Gallup's methodology is not the only way to timate the percentage of the populatn that is gay or lbian. Still, all available timat of the actual gay and lbian populatn the U. Are far lower than what the public timat, and no measurement procre has produced any figur suggtg that more than one out of five Amerins are gay or lbian.