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28.03.2024 - 14:53 / thegavoice.com
A new Gallup poll finds LGBTQ identification in the U.S. expanding annually with 7.6 percent of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation other than heterosexual. This latest percentage is up a full two percent from 5.6 percent four years ago and is more than double the 3.5 percent of 2012, Gallup’s first year of surveying sexual orientation and transgender identity.
Based on aggregated data from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, the information culled comes from interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. Gallup asks respondents a set of questions about their identities: whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6 percent say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6 percent identify with one or more LGBTQ groups and 6.8 percent declined to respond.
Bisexuality Most Prominent
Bisexual adults comprise the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population — 4.4 percent of U.S. adults with 57.3 percent of LGBTQ adults saying they are bisexual. Gay and lesbian are the second most common identities, with each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults overall and about one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than one percent of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBTQ adults identify as transgender. In the “other” category, the most commonly expressed LGBTQ identities given by respondents are pansexual and asexual with each at fewer than two percent of LGBTQ adults.
Expanded LGBTQ Identification Among Younger Adults
Generation Z and the Millennial generation are far more likely than those in older generations to identify as LGBTQ. Gallup found that overall, each younger generation is about
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Suits, a long-running mainstay on cable’s USA Network that became a streaming phenomenon last year, will make its broadcast debut this fall on MyNetwork TV.
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George Carlin once noted that “bulls**t is truly the American soundtrack.” Well, today the music got just a little bit more authentic – at least online.
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