Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Qualy of Life Advisory Commissn |

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER QUALY OF LIFE ADVISORY COMMISSN
• GAYT PLAC IN TEXAS FOR 2020
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

LGBT stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr.

The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Have legalized gay marriage. For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals.

San Francis and Santa Rosa are nsired the gayt ci the U.

Johnson said the Texas fdgs uld be part bee, like California, there are several large ci across the has the largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr populatn—2. Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER QUALY OF LIFE ADVISORY COMMISSN

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. 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?

GAYT PLAC IN TEXAS FOR 2020

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.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

" 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.

Overtimatns of the natn's gay populatn may part be due to the group's outsized visibily. Gay Populatn. 7%) are gay or lbian -- the hight of any key subgroup, and much higher than men's perceptns (17.

Gay populatn vary by age. Among polil partisans, Democrats and pennts timate that about a quarter of Amerins are gay or lbian, while the average approximatn among Republins is a b lower (18.

LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY

Even the groups offerg the lowt average timat of gays and lbians the U.

Amerins' Estimate of the Gay Populatn the U.