Posted on 05/31/2012 12:14:09 PM PDT by C19fan
One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it's among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.
What percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? A lower one than you might think -- and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.
In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“Young people today think that the goal in life is to have sex with everybody...”
Don’t make me get out the Helen Thomas picture!
And 95% of white males are morons.
“The “B” in LGBT”
This is one thing I’ve never been able to get a straight answer from anyone who defends homosexuality. Bisexualism…if it’s NOT a choice, please explain it? I don’t believe most gays are born this way, but I do believe many of them are that way by the age of 5.
But definitely NOT ALL of them. For some of them, it is a choice.
And 80% live in Massachusetts.
The "love that dare not speak its name" now refuses to shut the hell up!
0 bummer voters. What do I win??
Too true.
I believe it is the book “Kinsey and Consequences” or another related book that found that boys who had been sexually abused were more likely to become “homosexual”.
Picture the whole world as a cow that can always be milked, a place where nothing moral or cultural can pose a credible challenge to the dictatorship of the secular mass market.
Just the ones who aren’t gay.
bm
Even my wife’s hairdresser is straight, and we live in New England...
It is shameless how the gay 1% have ruined so many functioning gaydars (through excessive vigilance and use) by exaggerating the % of homos.
Nikita knew what he was talking about in 1959...these lies about the percentage of sodomites in the population are facilitated by Nikita's comrades in the media. It is deliberate, and it is effective.
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