[Brad from Tennessee]

The U.S. homosexual community claims that 10 percent of the population is gay. I believe the figure is lower, more like 1.5 to 5 percent. San Fransisco, the U.S. gay mecca, claims a a gay population of 15.4 percent, while Los Angeles claims 5.6 percent. States with the largest gay populations are:

1 California 5.2% 1,338,164
2 Florida 4.6% 609,219
3 New York 4.2% 592,337
4 Texas 3.6% 579,968
5 Illinois 3.8% 345,395
6 Ohio 4.0% 335,110
7 Pennsylvania 3.5% 323,454
8 Georgia 4.3% 278,943
9 Massachusetts 5.7% 269,074
10 Washington 5.7% 266,983

Some states, like Texas, rank high biggest because their general population is high.

This data and more comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_village

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Community_Survey

[neocon1984]

IIRC, the 10% figure came From Alfred Kinsey (U of Indiana) out of surveys that oversampled prison populations. Kinsey had a very clear personal agenda. His numbers have been long discredited by legitimate social scientists.

The likely figure is in the 2% range.