How Many American Men Are Gay?

The New York Times ^ | December 7, 2013 | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

[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....

[Farnsworth]

From the way the pop media culture is, I’m thinking we are all gay, we just haven’t realized it yet.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Red Badger]

[edcoil]

yup, I remember someone saying that since it is a constant number over many years it make it “normal” for that percent to be this way so the lifestyle is a normal exception.

[truth_seeker]

Who cares?

[cripplecreek]

6 ?

[armydawg505]

Even if its only one man, he would still be loud and demanding.

[Darren McCarty]

That reminds me of Andrew Dice Clay’s quote “You either blank blanks or you don’t blank blanks. There is no in-between”

[null and void]

Makes sense. No woman who has put on a couple hundred pounds, stopped wearing make-up a decade ago, hasn't had a civil word to or about her spouse in years, never dresses up, house cleans by kicking debris around until it gets lost, has Pizza Hut do all the cooking, and only occasionally bathes or changes her muumuu can imagine any other reason why the hubby isn't as loving as he once was, except that he simply must be gay!

[SevenofNine]

I think our President is or bi sexual

[Berlin_Freeper]

0.2%

[Red Badger]

http://1aiway.com/nlp4net/docs/diagrammer_togo.aspx

http://1aiway.com/nlp4net/services/enparser/

[x]

There is something in what he says, but 1) people do move from one state to another and it’s likely that homosexuals would congregate in states more accepting of homosexuality and 2) maybe the smaller number of gays in the what he calls the LTS are searching for a lot more porn than the larger number in the MTS.

[Kartographer]

Seems to be a good number of happy guys right here on FR. ;-)

[Izzy Dunne]

6 ?

You were forced to go to a Village People concert, weren't you?

;-)

[NY.SS-Bar9]

I have always thought I was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

Does that count?

[alstewartfan]

AND, bent over in the shower.

[cripplecreek]

[Da Coyote]

ISGAS.

I Scarcely Give a Sh...er...SmellyObamahole.

[alstewartfan]

A cheeky lot, you might say.....