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Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• NUMBER OF GAY MARRIAG CANADA TRIPL: CENS
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER LGBT+CANADA’S LGBT POPULATN ABOUT ONE LN STRONG, BISEXUAL WOMEN OUTNUMBER GAY MEN

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

PolicsCanada is now home to about one ln people who intify as members of the LGBTQ muny, wh people unr the age of 25 acuntg for a disproportnately large portn of the LGBTQ says s reportg on transgenr populatns will improveA rabow flag hangs Montreal's Gay Village. In addn, one-quarter of Canada’s LGB populatn are gay men (255, 100), while one seven are gay or lbian women (150, 600). Pri Season brgs together members of diverse muni who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, Two-Spir, or those who intify wh another non-bary genr or mory sexual inty (LGBTQ2+) and alli celebratg one of Canada's greatt strengths that is diversy and cln.

Much of the data this release foc on LGB Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual), sce Statistics Canada has been llectg tailed rmatn on the muni sce 2003. Although much has been acplished sce the begng of the new lennium, cludg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage  2005, and protectg genr exprsn and inty the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Crimal Co  2017, ncerns rema, given the spike hate crim targetg LGBTQ2+ Canadians one-third of LGBTQ2+ Canadians are unr 25 years oldCombed data om the 2015 to 2018 cycl of the Canadian Communy Health Survey (CCHS) found that one-quarter of Canada's LGB populatn were gay men (255, 100), while 1  7 are gay or lbian women (150, 600).

Concerns rema terms of acceptance, mental health and well-begAcrdg to the 2018 Survey on Safety Public and Private Spac, LGB+ Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual, and Canadians whose sexual orientatn is not heterosexual) were more likely to report beg vlently victimized their lifetime and to have experienced appropriate behavurs public and onle than non-sexual mory Canadians.

NUMBER OF GAY MARRIAG CANADA TRIPL: CENS

Nearly 9  10 (88%) of the crim specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny, while the remar prised cints targetg bisexual people (2%), people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (6%), and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (4%). Statistics Canada will also be releasg a seri of four articl g the CCHS over the urse of 2021 and early 2022 to highlight the characteristics of the lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual populatn on the followg them: fay and hoehold characteristics, lguistic and ethnocultural diversy, tn and labour. At Statistics Canada, the LGBTQ2+ acronym is ed to reflect the broad spe of genr and sexual inti that exist acronym LGBTQ2+ ed this release clus lbian, gay, bisexual, or another mory sexual inty such as asexual or pansexual, as well as mory genr inty (trans and non-bary inti like genrqueer, genr fluid, pangenr or agenr).

7% of Canadian adults between the ag of 18 and 59 reported themselv to be homosexual (gay or lbian) and 1.

LGB people were more likely to live ci than ral muni—gay men particular beg the most likely to live Canada’s largt cens metropolan areas. More than one-third of gay and lbian olr adults were sgle—substantially higher than among heterosexual and bisexual olr adults. Bisexual dividuals were more than twice as likely as gay and lbian people to be parents livg wh young children.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

While upl and fai share many siar challeng regardls of their characteristics, same-sex upl and fai head by lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) people face different circumstanc pared wh heterosexual upl and fai. Acrdg to Statistics Canada (2021), Note an timated 900, 000Note people livg Canada were lbian, gay, or bisexual, reprentg 3.

LGB dividuals were more likely than their heterosexual unterparts to live populatn centr than ral Gay and lbian people were the most likely to live large urban populatn centr (74.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

8%) dividuals were also more like to have been divorced, separated or widowed than their gay and lbian unterparts (6. Marriage has been ls popular Quebec than most other provc and terrori for some In Quebec, the populatn aged 25 to 64 was the most likely to be livg mon-law than married across sexual orientatn groups (heterosexual, gay or lbian, and bisexual), pared wh other. 2%) of gay men aged 65 and olr were livg alone—a higher percentage and statistilly different than 19.

LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER LGBT+CANADA’S LGBT POPULATN ABOUT ONE LN STRONG, BISEXUAL WOMEN OUTNUMBER GAY MEN

Wh a sample of 130, 000 rponnts every two years, is a well-sued data source for rearch on smaller populatns such as lbian, gay and bisexual people livg Canada. The CCHS sexual orientatn variable ntaed three rponse tegory optns: heterosexual (sexual relatns wh people of the oppose sex), homosexual, that is lbian or gay (sexual relatns wh people of your own sex), and bisexual (sexual relatns wh people of both sex).

7% — The percentage of Canadians aged 18 to 59 who reported 2014 that they nsir themselv to be homosexual (gay or lbian). The clu behavur, that is, whether a person's partner or partners are of the same or the oppose sex, and inty, that is, whether a person nsirs himself or herself to be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. Data om other untri suggt that the number of people who nsir themselv to be homosexual is much smaller than the number who report havg had sexual relatns wh someone of the same sex.

1% — The proportn of Canadians aged 18 years and over who intified themselv as homosexual (gay or lbian) the 2009 General Social Survey on Victimizatn. About the same — The rate of homosexuals and bisexuals who had a nsultatn wh a fay doctor the past 12 months, pared to heterosexuals.