Posted on 05/22/2018 4:20:20 PM PDT by Ennis85
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentage of American adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) increased to 4.5% in 2017, up from 4.1% in 2016 and 3.5% in 2012 when Gallup began tracking the measure. The latest estimate is based on over 340,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup's daily tracking in 2017.
Gallup's LGBT estimates are based on those respondents who say "yes" when asked, "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender?" Extrapolation to the latest census estimate of adults 18 and older in the U.S. suggests that more than 11 million adults identify as LGBT in the country today.
The expansion in the number of Americans who identify as LGBT is driven primarily by the cohort of millennials, defined as those born between 1980 and 1999. The percentage of millennials who identify as LGBT expanded from 7.3% to 8.1% from 2016 to 2017, and is up from 5.8% in 2012. By contrast, the LGBT percentage in Generation X (those born from 1965 to 1979) was up only .2% from 2016 to 2017. There was no change last year in LGBT percentage among baby boomers (born 1946 through 1964) and traditionalists (born prior to 1946).
LGBT identification is lower as age increases, although there is a particularly large jump between millennials and those in the next oldest generation, defined as Generation X.
The roughly one-percentage-point increase (0.8 points) in LGBT identification among millennials from 2016 to 2017 is the biggest year-to-year increase among any age group since tracking began in 2012. In contrast, the percentage of traditionalists and baby boomers who identify as LGBT has declined slightly since 2012, while the LGBT percentage among Generation X is up slightly.
Gender Gap in LGBT Identification Expands
Women continue to be more likely to identify as LGBT
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I think there is some truth to what you say.
I recall two girls who were unusually pretty. I would rate them both as 9s and I am a tough grader.
It was rumored they had a sexual relationship with each other. They even had pet names for each other. I never knew if the rumors were true. Both dated boys however I recently found out something which makes me wonder.
One got married and lived an uneventful life as far as I knew. The other one is now living with her Dyke partner. When they were young it was sort of fascinating picturing those two, but now the reality of a 70 year old Dyke is pretty disgusting.
For whatever reason, there are a lot of women who are bisexual, or who have at least tried it.
After the 3rd martini every woman on Earth is bisexual.
Trust me.
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Gay...2%
All the rest: 1/10 of 1%
There just aren't that many women around who think they are men and vice versa...
I'm even willing to concede that gays didn't "choose" that way of life.
I have at least 4 gays in my extended family that I know of. They may all be, but one of them is an outspoken pro-Trump Republican. He has been an outspoken Republican since long before Trump changed parties. He is also a Navy veteran who takes pride in his service.
Lot c_ _ _ksuckers out there, one named Obama.
Pollsters at it again, trying to sway ignorant people. And Donald Trump had no path to 270.
And now it's more than doubled already?
But it’s from the Dept of Estimates!
The goal is apparently 100%
I left the Army a decade ago and a lot of the female soldiers were bi or bi curious and these were not butch dykes but good looking friendly girls.
It's possible.
Soy formula, xenoestrogens, plastic endocrine disruptors, vegan diet, sugar and rancid fried vegetable oils all mess up hormones and neurotransmitters. Result is biological confusion abetted by dysfunctional social messages.
I call BS
Oh, well then...
LOL
According to news media and entertainment content, LGBT population must be at least 80% of the American population...
I understand where you’re going there, but I still have a hard time judging homosexuals as more than about 2% of our society, and Tranies at more than about 1% of our society.
While I also understand that being a tranny is not indicative of being a homosexual, you still can’t convince me there isn’t a crossover contingent in these groups.
"In feminist jargon, "sex" is merely biological while "gender" refers to roles and is claimed to be "socially constructed," which means that everything about men and women, other than their reproductive organs, can be altered by changes in the social and cultural environment. One of the major implications of this view is that human sexuality has no natural form but is culturally conditioned. Radical feminist concede that there are two sexes, but they usually claim there are five genders . . . Thus, heterosexuality, being socially constructed, is no more "natural" or desirable than homosexuality.
The gender perspective of radical feminism is easy to ridicule but it must be taken seriously. It attacks not only men but the institution of the family, it is hostile to traditional religion, it demands quotas in every field for women, and it engages in serous misrepresentations of facts. Worst of all, it inflicts great damage on persons and essential institutions in a reckless attempt to remake human beings and create a world that can never exist. As we will see, among the institutions being severely damaged by radical feminism are the American educational system and the American military.
Perhaps the first thing to point out, however, is that radical feminism in its largest aspirations is doomed to failure. That makes the harms it inflicts on people and institutions in pursuit of its unattainable ends all the more inexcusable."
Recruitment, confuse them while they are young, nail it down while they are adolescents and you have them screwed up for life.
They did this BS social engineering propaganda crap before where kids were so blinded by the gay crap that they started to believe that they were perverts.
Fake News
B.S.
Lie
LGBTQ is built upon lies.
Homosexuals, according to professionals of the psychology associations for decades say it has held steady at 2%. A few more for males, a few less for females. I believe it remains so.
How is this possible when homosexual activists have claimed for years that 10% of the population is gay?
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