Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay.
Contents:
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- PEOPLE THK 1 4 AMERINS ARE GAY
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
* 1 in 3 is gay *
One of the early gay activist talkg pots was that 1 10 people were gay, even though the activists knew this was not te.
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... * 1 in 3 is gay *
That’s why was signifint when, 2011, mographer Gary Gat, himself gay, “released a review of populatn-based surveys on the topic, timatg that 3. 5% of adults the Uned Stat intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual, wh bisexuals makg up a slight majory of that figure. 5%) say they are gay, wh 11.
4% as gay, 0. The send possibily is that they are beg fluenced by the society around them, and so they perceive themselv to be gay or lbian or bisexual or transgenr at a much higher rate. Already 2002, Gallup found that “Amerins timated that 21% of men were gay and that 22% of women were lbian.
Adults, on average, timate that 25% of Amerins are gay or lbian.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
9 percent, meang, that this age group thought that almost 1 3 Amerins were gay or lbian. Back 2001, Michael Medved rightly noted, “A Martian gatherg evince about Amerin society, simply by monorg our televisn, would certaly assume that there were more gay people Ameri than there are evangelil Christians” (whereas evangelil Christians numbered, at that time, at least 20-30 percent of the populatn) stark ntrast, even the new Gallup poll, only 1. 4 percent of men intified as gay (meang, ls than 1 out every 71 men), 0.
In other words, they are not intifyg as exclively gay or lbian.