In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey shocked the world by announcg that 10% of the male populatn is gay. A 1993 Jan Report timated that ne percent of men and five percent of women had more than "ocsnal" homosexual relatnships. To some people, homosexualy is a matter of perceptn and fn. Furthermore, many people have trouble admtg their homosexualy to themselv, much ls to a rearcher. But when Gallup asked Amerins for their bt timate of the Amerin gay and lbian populatn, the rults ma all the figur mentned look nservative.
Contents:
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY? LGBT STATISTICS.
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
- PEOPLE THK 1 4 AMERINS ARE GAY
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- ‘HETERO’: EVERYONE IS GAY AND NO ONE DI
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY? LGBT STATISTICS.
How many people are gay? The bt known LGBT statistic says 1 10 people is homosexual but, what is behd this statistil procs? What ... * one in every is gay *
Say they are bisexual, wh about 2% each intifyg as gay, lbian or transgenr, " Gallup says. Gallup only asked rponnts if they intified as LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr), although the LGBT muny also enpass other intifitns, such as queer.
However, the 2017 poll only asked participants to answer "y" or "no" to whether they intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. 6% of adults who intified as LGBT, more than half are bisexual, about a quarter are gay, 11.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
* one in every is gay *
4% as gay, 0. 5%) say they are gay, wh 11. "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, " Gallup says.
Hodg, which legalized marriage between people of the same reversg that cisn would not be easy, and the landspe of the issue has shifted sharply the last show there have been dramatic creas support of gay marriage and how many Amerins self-intify as LGBTQ. In some sense, “self-intifyg” as lbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual, even a survey, is an act of feelg fortable sharg that rmatn wh the broar public — and for some rponnts, that may have bee easier as same-sex marriage beme a more accepted part of the culture. BLOGOpnstoni – 01/05/19 – No CommentsHow many people are gay?
The ia that one ten people is homosexual is perhaps one of the most known and recurrg “myths” about homosexualy.
PEOPLE THK 1 4 AMERINS ARE GAY
A new Gallup poll dit that the average Amerin believ that a quarter of the populatn is gay or lbian. Addnally, 35% of those polled thk the figure is even higher. Participants were asked, "Jt your bt gus, what percent of Amerins today would you say are gay or lbian?" Onl... * one in every is gay *
The reports revolutnized and sndalized the society of the 50s, removg homosexualy om the shadows and makg a relatively mon phenomenon. So much so, that acrdg to Ksey at least 37% of the male populatn and 20% of the female populatn had had some homosexual experience between adolcence and old age. However, his reports Ksey do not talk about that 10% statistics, bee, although that data is related to that rearcher and his report, the te fact is (at least acrdg to Bce Voeller, scientist and foundg member of the Natnal Gay Task Force, now known as Natnal LGBTQ Task Force) that they “vented” the number by makg an average between men (13%) and women (7%), which acrdg to the reports were mostly homosexual.
Homosexualy everywhereAnd so, the famo statistic that claimed that 10% of the populatn was homosexual was born. The qutn How many people are gay?
So much so that the number, ed aga and aga, has bee an almost accepted fact, turng statistics and homosexual mography to a tool and/or a weapon the polil battlefield between fenrs and opponents of the LGBT people rights.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
It has served as a rivative also, focg on the thorny pot that after more than a century sce the ncept of homosexualy appeared, has not been possible to answer the qutn of what is or what is meant by homosexualy.
Bee, spe havg been untg homosexuals for 70 years, seems that the thors, scholars, specialists, and experts who rry out the studi nnot e to an agreement on the matter. Homosexualy and heterosexualy, the error of approach.
‘HETERO’: EVERYONE IS GAY AND NO ONE DI
Bee the studi are not only about knowg how many people are gay, about how many of are homosexual, but about why we are different, and startg om this premise of difference we are assumg and reaffirmg a mol of hegemonic sentialist heterosexualy that remas almost untouchable, even the oh! But, neverthels, that 10% also forc to exist relatn to a paradigm that has long sce begun to change of the homosexualy paradigmThe ia that a person’s sexualy is dynamic, fluid, changeable, and versatile, that works beyond a fixed, termate, and stable inty that n be fed by a term, is the great secret that has existed sce the tim of Ksey. It is not about how many people are gay, lbian or bisexual.
It is not that there are gay, bi or hetero humans, but that all human begs have the wonrful abily to love and enjoy very different ways pendg on the circumstanc. Countg homosexuals do nothg but rerce that dichotomy between the normal and the different, and if we really want to move forward we mt abandon that paradigm, which was eful for a time but that is sufficient today, bee human sexualy, of people, of all of , is plastic, and there is where s sentialy many people are gay? In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey shocked the world by announcg that 10% of the male populatn is gay.