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?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE U.S. POPULATN IS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL?
• IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT
• AMERINS HAVE NO IA HOW FEW GAY PEOPLE THERE ARE

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

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.

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.

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. 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.

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

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. 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?

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

In addn to beg able to intify whether they are lbian, gay, bisexual or straight, rponnts may also specifilly intify whether they are transgenr. In olr age groups, exprsed bisexual preference is not signifintly more mon than exprsed gay or lbian preference.

At a time when Amerins are creasgly supportive of equal rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people, a growg percentage of Amerins intify themselv as LGBT.

Adults’ intifitn as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg other than heterosexual held steady 2022, at 7. In each survey, Gallup asks rponnts if they intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg else, allowg them to choose multiple inti. About one five LGBT adults intify as gay, about one seven say they are lbian, and slightly fewer than one 10 intify as transgenr.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE U.S. POPULATN IS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL?

In 2022, Gallup for the first time rerd the preferred inty of those who dited they were somethg other than heterosexual bis the tradnal lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr inti. 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. 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 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.

IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?

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).

Share of rponnts who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr the Uned Stat om 2012 to 2022, by generatn.

LGBT populatn 2023, by stat of transgenr exclns health suranceTransgenr suici rate the Uned Stat 2022, by sex assigned at birthThe most important statisticsNumber of untri that crimalize homosexualy 2022U.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

StatisticsAmerin men and women who intify as homosexual, bisexual, or transgenr, by stateShare of French people who have ever felt unfortable around LGBT people 2019Sexual orientatn of Amerins 2013Transgenr intifitn Lat Ameri 2016, by untryFaiary wh the LGBT muny Lat Ameri 2016Lat Ameri: murrs of trans & genr-diverse people 2008-2021Opns on unique spirual gifts of transgenr people India 2017Opn on transgenr people's place Japan 2017Opns among Japane whether transgenr people have a form of mental illns 2017Opns on whether transgenr people have a mental illns India 2017Individuals who thk transgenr people are brave Poland 2017Opn on high school female trans athlet petg the U. However, overall, Black LGB and transgenr adults reported ncealg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and experiencg ternalized homophobia or transphobia to some gree.

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. 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. But past data that I’ve seen had suggted that there were about twice as many gay or bisexual men as lbian or bisexual women; this data suggts that there is no such genr gap.

GAY AMERINS: GOVERNMENT BEGS LGBT POPULATN COUNT

The cens survey, for example, asks rponnts to choose which bt reprents how they thk of themselv: “gay or lbian”; “bisexual”; “somethg else”; “I don’t know”; or “straight, that is not gay or lbian. Gallup's LGBT timat are based on those rponnts who say "y" when asked, "Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

The general groupg of the four orientatns (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) to one qutn volv signifint simplifitn, and other measurement techniqu which ask about each of the tegori dividually yield different timat.

Back 1977, the US Natnal Gay Task Force (NGTF) was ved to the Whe Hoe to meet Print Jimmy Carter’s reprentativ – a first for gay and lbian groups. The NGTF’s most proment mpaigng slogan was “we are everywhere”, backed up by the memorable statistil claim that one 10 of the US populatn was gay – this figure was eply and passnately where did Bce Voeller, a scientist who was a founr and first director of the NGTF, get this nice round 10% om?

AMERINS HAVE NO IA HOW FEW GAY PEOPLE THERE ARE

To fd out, we have to lve back to Aled Ksey’s surveys 1940s Ameri, which were groundbreakg at the time but are now seen as archaic their methods: he sought out rponnts prisons and the gay unrworld, ma iends wh them and, over a cigarette, noted down their behavurs g an obscure . Ksey did not believe that sexual inty was fixed and simply tegorised, and perhaps his most lastg ntributn was his sle, still ed today, which dividuals are rated om exclively heterosexual to exclively homosexual on a sle of 0 to ’s headle fdg was that “at least 37% of the male populatn has some homosexual experience between the begng of adolcence and old age”, meang physil ntact to the pot of asm. He claimed that 13% of mal were predomately homosexual for at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55 (srg at least 4) and that 4% of mal were exclively homosexual all their liv (srg 6).

In unmarried femal between the ag of 20 and 35, he claimed there was at least some homosexual experience 11%-20%, and 1%-3% were exclively Ksey terviews a woman for one of his sexual behavur surveys. Photograph: Bill Dellenback/APSo, 1973, when Voeller was puttg together the NGTF mpaign, he went back to Ksey’s timat for those wh predomantly homosexual experience (4 to 6 on his sle) for at least three years.