Posted on 09/23/2010 11:03:03 AM PDT by jessduntno
Almost three-quarters of a million UK adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual - equivalent to 1.5% of the population, a survey suggests.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says 480,000 (1%) consider themselves gay or lesbian, and 245,000 (0.5%) bisexual.
The ONS received 450,000 responses in its new Integrated Household Survey.
The survey provides the biggest pool of social data in the UK after the Census, ONS says.
London had the highest percentage of those polled who identified as gay, Lesbian or bisexual and Northern Ireland lowest.
Testing phase
People aged 16 and over were questioned about their self-perceived sexual identity, and asked to respond with one of four options: heterosexual/straight, gay/lesbian, bisexual or other.
The data showed that 95% said they were heterosexual, 1% gay or lesbian, 0.5% bisexual, 0.5% other, and the remaining 3% either did not know or did not answer.
The survey is based on questions from six current household surveys. The sexual identity question was tested on a number of ONS surveys in 2008 and added on the IHS in 2009.
All the survey's statistics are considered experimental, or in a testing phase, as they have not yet been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority.
The gay equality charity Stonewall welcomed the release of the figures but suggested the real figure for people who were gay, lesbian or bisexual could be higher.
Chief Executive Ben Summerskill said: "This is is the first time that people were asked and data collection happened on doorsteps or over the phone, which may deter people from giving accurate responses - particularly if someone isn't openly gay at home."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
1.6%, and this is why they will never demand to be counted in the Census. One in Ten is a lie.
Hermaphrodites?
But seriously, this is the truth: the noisy "gay community" is a tiny minority of psychologically damaged people. There's nothing genetic about it.
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that’s weird. I remember in public school being taught that ten percent of the population way gay. I’m sure they were being very objective /sarc
1.5% of any population will say ANYTHING if they think it will pay off somehow.
“that’s weird. I remember in public school being taught that ten percent of the population way gay. I’m sure they were being very objective /sarc”
The ten percent number was culled from the first Masters and Johnson reports that concluded based on a statistical survey that approximately 10% of the total population had experienced a homosexual encounter. That got twisted into the 10% was gay lie. The lie got repeated so often that this was the gay percentage, that it became (almost) believed to be accurate ... by gays.
You’ve got it.
1%. And they commit 40% of the pedophile acts.
Source? or sarcasm?
If this is true in the UK, whose boarding schools are notorious poof factories, then it has to be even less in America, whose public schools are merely doof factories.
1.5% is what I’d always heard as the real number. 10% is just another leftist lie.
Yep, and the men contract 50 percent of all HIV infections. That’ makes them close to 100x as likely to contract HIV.
But no, it’s not a gay disease anymore. ;)
Now history tells us that he used his power to marry Katherine Howard who was only 19 years old. Suffice to say, he alleged she had relationships with men and did not confess prior to marriage. She was executed.
Now a scene showed a high bred woman seeking audience with the then Queen Catherine. It showed them in a sexual embrace and in bed together. I know of no such occurrence of any sort that this happened. Just the same as certain individuals came under fire on the documentary of the air aces of the Battle of Britain 1940. With straight faces it was stated many were homosexual from Britain's elite so-called public schools. A Wing-Commander of that era came on television to completely rebut this propaganda.
The insidious lying bunch cannot leave others out of their life style. It is not as they pleaded "leave us alone in private" etc.
Almost three-quarters of a million UK adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual - equivalent to 1.5% of the population, a survey suggests.
And that 1.5% demand more attention, health care, privileges, and “tolerance” from the 98.5% of the other population.
Talk about the flea wagging the dog, nevermind the tail.
1.6% is 1 in 100, not 1 in 10.
Public Education + TV = Doofie Poofs!
Interesting. I’ve heard homosexual activists claim that 10% of the population is homosexual. This 1.5% fits in with the independent studies I’ve seen.
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