How Gay Are You?

Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• HOW GAY ARE YOU?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• THE 100% ACCURATE GAY TT ?️‍?
• EXACTLY HOW GAY ARE YOU? TT YOUR GQ NOW! (GAYNS QUOTIENT!)

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

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. Gay populatn, rerdg siar average timat of 24.

Amerins' Estimatns of the Percentage of Gay People the U.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

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. 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.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

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.

HOW GAY ARE YOU?

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

Amerins' Estimate of the Gay Populatn the U. It is, therefore, possible that Amerins' perceptns of the gay populatn may be fluenced by the greater reprentatn they see among young people. Gay and lbian populatn to be.

Increasg numbers of populatn-based surveys the Uned Stat and across the world clu qutns that allow for an timate of the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. 5% of adults the Uned Stat intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual and an timated 0. 7% who intify as lbian or gay).

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

Conversely, gay men prise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men seven of the ne surveys. Unrstandg the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn is a cril first step to rmg a host of public policy and rearch topics.

In measurg sexual orientatn, lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals may be intified strictly based on their self-inty or may be possible to nsir same-sex sexual behavr or sexual attractn. How many adults are lbian, gay, or bisexual?

Fdgs shown Figure 1 nsir timat of the percentage of adults who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual across ne surveys nducted wh the past seven years. While the surveys show a fairly wi variatn the overall percentage of adults who intify as LGB, the proportn who intify as lbian/gay vers bisexual is somewhat more nsistent (see Figure 2).

THE 100% ACCURATE GAY TT ?️‍?

In six of the surveys, lbian- and gay-intified dividuals outnumbered bisexuals. In most s, the surveys were roughly 60% lbian/gay vers 40% bisexual.

The UK Integrated Hoehold Survey found the proportn to be two-thirds lbian/gay vers one-third bisexual. The Natnal Survey of Fay Growth found rults that were sentially the oppose of the UK survey wh only 38% intifyg as lbian or gay pared to 62% intifyg as bisexual. The Natnal Survey of Sexual Health and Behavr and the Atralian Longudal Study of Health and Relatnships both found a majory of rponnts (55% and 59%, rpectively) intifyg as surveys show even greater nsistency differenc between men and women associated wh lbian/gay vers bisexual inty.

Wh the surveys, a larger actn of adults report same-sex attractns and behavrs than self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (see Figure 4). How many lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people are there the Uned Stat?

EXACTLY HOW GAY ARE YOU? TT YOUR GQ NOW! (GAYNS QUOTIENT!)

Separate averag are lculated for lbian and bisexual women along wh gay and bisexual men. It should be noted that some transgenr dividuals may intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual. This is spl nearly evenly between lbian/gay and bisexual intified dividuals, 1.

This is our sixth time rankg the gayt stat to enlargeToday, more Amerins intify as beg gay than ever before. 5%, or about 1 every 25 Amerins says they are gay.

That number has gone up over time — more and more Amerins are g out as ’ve prevly taken a look at the Gayt Ci Ameri and, to no one’s surprise, San Francis checked as the gayt cy. What was surprisg, to at least, was the relatively low percentage of hoeholds that reported to the Cens as gay San Francis — only got thkg, if the gayt cy the untry has a gay populatn that small, how small mt the gay populatn be across Ameri? But what stat lead the pack when to the gay populatn?