How Many People are Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr? - Williams Instute

Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
• U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN
• THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• FED HEALTH SURVEY ASKS: HOW MANY AMERINS ARE GAY?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Adults intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual. 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.

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

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.

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. 7%) are gay or lbian -- the hight of any key subgroup, and much higher than men's perceptns (17.

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

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. It is, therefore, possible that Amerins' perceptns of the gay populatn may be fluenced by the greater reprentatn they see among young people. Twenty-one per cent of LGBTQ+ Amerins intify as gay, 14% lbian, 10% transgenr and 4% somethg one six Gen Z adults, or 15%, intify as bisexual.

“The young adults [Generatn Z] are g of age, cludg g to terms wh their sexualy or genr inty, at a time when Amerins creasgly accept gays, lbians and transgenr people, and LGBT dividuals enjoy creasg legal protectn agast discrimatn, ” Gallup said. 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. Adults intify as bisexual, pared to 1 percent who intify as lbian, 1.5 percent as gay, 0.7 percent as transgenr and 0.3 percent as other.

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 VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

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.

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. 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.

U.S. ADULTS ESTIMATE THAT 25% OF AMERINS ARE GAY OR LBIAN

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 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).

THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY

A new Gallup poll suggts most Amerins vastly overtimate how large the gay muny is the Uned Stat. 5% of Amerins self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to an earlier Gallup study. "There are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat.

7 percent) are gay or lbian, the hight of any mographic, and much higher than men thought (17.

4 percent) also noted that Democrats and pennts timated about a quarter of Amerins are gay, while Republins gused a b lower (18.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

In the 1940s, the Ksey Report helped flate the size of the gay populatn people's mds: Aled Ksey mataed sexualy was fluid, claimg that 13 percent of men were "predomately homosexual" for at least three years between ag 16 and 55. He also reported that at least 37 percent of men and 20 percent of women had some same-sex experience between the begng of adolcence and old the 1970s, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Taskforce cnched Ksey's data and touted the statistic that 10 percent of the populatn was homosexual. ) Many people are still closeted to some gree, but Gallup reports "no measurement procre has produced any figur suggtg that more than one out of five Amerins are gay or lbian.

FED HEALTH SURVEY ASKS: HOW MANY AMERINS ARE GAY?

A 2017 GLAAD study found that 20 percent of Millennials intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.

This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. Back 1948 sex rearcher Aled Ksey famoly suggted that 10 percent of the mal he'd studied were, quote, "more or ls exclively homosexual, " unquote.

He's -thor of the book "The Gay and Lbian Atlas" and he's wh om NPR Wt Southern California. Also, the Ksey Instute has - which is the legacy of Ksey - has stated very clearly that their view is that this was a kd of a polil cisn of gay activists the '70s. They need at that time to nvce people that the gay people actually existed and fact that they were kd of everywhere.

And they took that rather obscure passage om a Ksey book, which was never tend to be an timate of the number of gay people the Uned Stat and kd of adopted for polil purpos.

So qutns like, do you nsir yourself to be - and then, you know, you n choose gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual. And, fact, we will lk to a piece that you wrote for The Washgton Post tled "Gay People Count, So Why Not Count Them Correctly?

And so the key on here are HIV and STDs, of urse most proment among gay men and transgenr people.

6 percent of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report. “Younger people are growg up an environment where beg gay, lbian or bisexual is not as taboo as was the past, ” Jon told NBC News.

For lennial LGBTQs, those 24 to 39 2020, half said they were bisexual, or a ltle more than 5 percent of all lennial poll aligns wh growg support for LGBTQ rights evint recent Gallup surveys, cludg a June 2020 poll showg that 67 percent of Amerins back gay marriage. In 2012, when Gallup started askg about sexual orientatn, only 53 percent believed same-sex upl should be allow to Gallup poll on sexual orientatn and genr inty provis more tail than past polls, which only asked rponnts to answer "y" or "no" on whether they intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.