i did not have sexual relations with any people
Posted on 02/27/2023 12:24:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nearly 20% of Generation Z, or those ages 19 to 26, identify as something other than heterosexual, the latest Gallup Poll shows.
The percentage of adults in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ increased slightly year over year, to 7.2% last year, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday.
While that’s just a slight increase from 7.1% in 2021, it’s more than double what it was a decade ago, when Gallup found just 3.5% of the U.S. population identified as something other than heterosexual in 2012.
Advertisement Gallup asked more than 10,000 adults nationwide how they identify in telephone interviews last year.
For the first time, the organization recorded the identities of LGBTQ people who said they are something other than lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It found that about 5% of LGBTQ adults identified outside those terms. Most of them — about 0.1% of all U.S. adults — said they are queer, pansexual or asexual.
“Queer” is an umbrella term that generally refers to people who aren’t heterosexual or cisgender, meaning they don’t identify with their assigned sexes at birth. “Pansexual” means someone experiences sexual or romantic attraction regardless of sex or gender identity. “Asexual” describes someone who doesn’t experience sexual attraction to others.
Bisexuals continue to make up the majority of LGBTQ adults, at 58.2% (or 4.2% of all U.S. adults), Gallup found, while 20.2% identify as gay, 13.4% identify as lesbian, and 8.8% identify as transgender.
Those who said they are straight or heterosexual made up 86% of respondents, while 7% chose not to answer the question.
Recommended polar plungeLaw enforcement community turns out for Santa Cruz Polar Plunge Continuing previous trends, Generation Z, or those ages 19 to 26, are the most likely to identify as LGBTQ, at 19.7%, compared to 11.2% of millennials, who are 27 to 42; 3.3% of Generation X, who are 43 to 58; 2.7% of Baby boomers, who are 59 to 77; and 1.7% of the Silent Generation, who are 78 or older.
Gallup found that younger generations are much more likely to identify as bisexual than older generations. For example, 66% of LGBTQ people in Generation Z and 62% of LGBTQ millennials identify as bisexual, compared to 48% of Generation X, 26% of baby boomers and 35% of the Silent Generation.
LGBTQ respondents in the two oldest generations are most likely to identify as gay (37% of baby boomers and 47% of the Silent Generation) and lesbian (26% of baby boomers and 12% of the Silent Generation).
Gallup noted that the share of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. is expected to continue to grow but that the growth “depends on younger people who enter adulthood in future years continuing to be much more likely to identify as LGBT than their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.”
Pop culture indoctrination is working
They have touted 10% for decades.
Now they can’t even make that number.................
In other words, if you have no sexual attraction because you're a depressed widow or widower, or was burned by an ex, are you now considered "asexual" and part of the LGBTQWERTY lobby?
Are they having such a hard time finding queer folks that they have to include folks who aren't attracted to anybody?
Social contagion. It will get worse.
I thought it was 25%
I doubt that was a “good sample”. 2 - 3% would be more realistic.
Yes and they increased the membership by 4 categories and still couldn’t reach the number!
Used to be about 1%.
that’s about 1.42% per letter... they need more letters.
Pop culture indoctrination is working
BINGO! It's "cool" to be some sort of sexual pervert now. Just wait, these chuckleheads are going to be awfully embarrassed with themselves when they finally grow up. Likely shunned too.
I’d be curious to know how many of these people have actually had sexual relations with other people?
You know what: the more news I read, the closer I get to being in that group....
No they don’t really. They just think they have to.
So, 7.2% are mentally retarded.
Kids figure out how to draw attention to themselves in kindergarten. This is no different, just for “adults.”
This is a nonsense poll that pads the numbers. If you look at the particulars, only 1.0% of adults view themselves as lesbian, 1.4% as gay, and measly 0.6% as transgender — pretty much in line with what everyone has said for years.
Where the numbers get padded are when they throw in bisexual, which comes up at 4.2%. Bisexual isn’t gay. Bisexual these days are essentially folks that like to swing and have a good time sexually, regardless of who shows up to the party. It also includes the fad folks — especially young women — who are porn watchers and want to do some crazy stuff to impress their pervert boyfriends.
The real takeaway in this poll is the 0.6% transgender.
THIS is what we are toppling our society and our children’s education over...
i did not have sexual relations with any people
How many just use the labels in order to meet the quotas for diversity?
A lot of them are doing it to be some special snowflake because it’s popular now. I suspect most will grow out of it.
It’s too bad that modern society doesn’t promote families and hard work as much as they promote faggotry and hating whitey
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