Posted on 12/09/2013 12:28:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WHAT percent of American men are gay? This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.
But somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions.
Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell a consistent story.
At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Gay men are half as likely as straight men to acknowledge their sexuality on social networks. More than one quarter of gay men hide their sexuality from anonymous surveys. The evidence also suggests that a large number of gay men are married to women....
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The evidence also suggests that a large number of gay men are married to women....
He and his wife were like surrogate parents to my wife and her siblings. The two families had a lot of kids and thy were more like close cousins than mere friends.
He died about a year ago. When asked how long the guy had been homosexual, my wife’s father said (Since WWII).
When he came out of the closet, he became persona-non-grata to both families right up to the day of his death. As far as they were concerned, his whole life had been a lie and the man they had known did not really exist and they wanted no part of the poser.
Well, there’s two that lived in the oral, I mean oval office. Buchanan and Obama.
Could have saved a lot of time by going to the cdc.
“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM))a represent approximately 2% of the United States population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV. In 2010, young MSM (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all MSM. At the end of 2010, an estimated 489,121 (56%) persons living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU.”
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html
It'll be a close percentage with the number who write blogs.
Who better to be an actor or politician than someone who has been “acting” normal all their lives?
In certain ZIP codes, (e.g., South Portland, ME, SFCA, etc.) about 75%?
You’re right.
A much higher proportion of the population is homosexual in
- Hollywood, where public policy is influenced, and
- Washington DC, where public policy is debated and determined.
“In the United States, of all Google searches that begin “Is my husband...,” the most common word to follow is “gay.” “Gay” is 10 percent more common in such searches than the second-place word, “cheating.” It is 8 times more common than “an alcoholic” and 10 times more common than “depressed.””
Sorry guys, I’m a flaming heterosexual.
“But somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions.”
There should be a criminal sanction of some sort for writing that sentence.
“In the United States, of all Google searches that begin “Is my husband...,” the most common word to follow is “gay...””
It’s not that he’s gay, it’s that he’s just not that into you...anymore.
There are certainly going to be higher percentages in workplaces and living spaces where individuals holding power are gay. If a gay holds a czar or Cabinet post or the company Human Resources keys, look out! They’ll hire their “friends” and those that might make them look good or “give them benefits.” Such can be especially true in a university environment. Gay? You’ve got a job. Straight, no return call for that application.
HF
To Answer Your Question, Seth … “How Many American Men Are Gay?”
http://theothermccain.com/2013/12/09/to-answer-your-question-seth/
Let’s see....there’s Tom Cruise, Barack Obama,...
lol
Somebody will (if they haven’t already) twist that to suggest gays are disproportionately sentenced.
HF
That is why you will NEVER see Gay on the Census. The true low number must be suppressed.
Answer: Too many. Bob
Interesting. I did the same thing for “Is my wife...” . The top answers are:
... having an affair.
... a tax dependent
... a narcissist (!)
... emotionally abusive (if you have to ask...)
... and kids on netflix
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