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:
- 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?
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. * 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. 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.
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 *
5%) say they are gay, wh 11.
4% as gay, 0.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
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.
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.