Posted on 05/27/2011 12:37:02 PM PDT by markomalley
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that more than one in four are. Thirty percent put the figure at less than 15%.
Just your best guess, what percent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian? 2002 and 2011 Trend
The findings, from a Gallup poll conducted May 5-8, 2011, mark the second time Gallup has asked Americans to estimate the gay population. In 2002, Gallup used two separate questions to ask Americans to estimate the percentage of gay men and lesbians. At that time, Americans estimated that 21% of men were gay and that 22% of women were lesbian. Twice as many did not offer an opinion as do now.
There is little reliable evidence about what percentage of the U.S. population is in reality gay or lesbian, due to few representative surveys asking about sexual orientation, complexities surrounding the groups and definitions involved, and the probability that some gay and lesbian individuals may not choose to identify themselves as such. Demographer Gary Gates last month released a review of population-based surveys on the topic, estimating that 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, with bisexuals making up a slight majority of that figure. Gates also disputes the well-circulated statistic that "10% of the males are more or less exclusively homosexual."
Americans' current collective estimate -- which is substantially higher than Gates suggests -- is likely driven more by perceptions and exposure than by scientific measurement or reality.
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Lord...save us from THAT!
Actually, I’d be kind of curious to see Jack White’s take on it. He’s a big-time lib, but he’s a helluva musician.
Yeah...there are some crazy libs who are fantastic musicians.
Why is that? Is it the artistic thing?
Probably - lots of people buy into the artist-as-rebel idea, and since society is basically conservative, to rebel they become leftists.
That, and I’m sure the drugs play a part.
Give the public schools another 20 years and everyone will think they are.
You ask that we not slam GALLUP but you better check out their polls. They always, always, always slant so far left that they have zero credibility. They must poll downtown Detroit, downtown Chicago, etc. They can claim the polls are random but I wouldn’t be surprised if they can select certain area codes to come up “randomly” more often than others. I cannot remember the last time I saw a GALLUP poll that didn’t swing FAR left. The poll that spoke the clearest to me was the 2010 election - the one that indicates that this country isn’t as far left as GALLUP would like to convince us it is.
I think the gays have generally dropped the 10%, although they usually now say it’s 2% - which is probably a crock as well. Either your number is correct or it’s less than that. The problem is when you live where I live, EVERYONE seems gay.
Biologically it should be well under 5% if not 0%............there is likely to be too many individuals who fit the liberal mold of fitting in with one’s gender group by bonding physically/mentally.
This is probably based on the Obama cabinet.
yours also
C.S. Lewis was a wonderfully wise man.
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