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GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT
Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * lgbt population in us *
This map shows the timated percentage of each state's adult (ag 18+) populatn that intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, based on a 2018 analysis of Gallup data by The Williams Instute. 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. For centuri, beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Ameri meant hidg at least part of who you were. “For s our stggle has been to stop beg visible, ” says San Francis Supervisor Stt Wiener, an openly gay lawmaker who is proposg this data be llected the Cy by the Bay.
When pollsters asked Amerins last year how they would intify on the Ksey Sle—a six pot ratg spanng om “exclively homosexual” to “exclively heterosexual”—about a third of lennials poted somewhere the “non-bary” middle, pared to about 8% of people over the age of 45.