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.”
People just figuring out how to game the system for themselves, just like the growing number of white people saying they’re black.
The system encourages this behavior.
Another fad is LUG for college girls.
Lesbian until graduation.
Network anchors run around 95%
Does LGBTQ+ include Attack Helicopter?
Every man needs to change into a woman and every woman needs to change into a man. It’s the only way to stop this nonsense.
Pop culture indoctrination is working
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Yep...ya get what ya groom.
52% identify as bisexual? Nowadays, that gets you on the queer train, which gets you acceptance in school and work. Oh, I’m sure none of them are lying. Bisexual means you can be heterosexual, but you might say a fellow guy or gal is cute, which “means” you could swing both ways.
LGBTadInfinitum. Queer means homosexual, which is redundant.
People?
The percentage of transgenders has doubled. All those high school girls who will be suing their physicians and therapists for pushing them down the self-mutilation path in a few years.
Any port in a storm?
Since number of homosexuals doubled, at least 50% are lying to get into the newest club.
“Oddly most of the gays that I have known live normal lives and just want to be left alone. That is okay.”
It isn’t okay. Active homosexuality is an abomination to God.
Read post #26.
The generation who grew up expecting a prize for everything and are moving back with parents because of Bidenflation.
You think any of the extra 50% might be lying to get into the popular club?
LUGs who wear UGGs?
Pretty soon everyone will be globo-homo and a minority. All at once!
All the kool kids are doing it!
Flipping parents and Fathers especially need to get up off their asses.
About the same number of people who are mentally ill. What a surprise.
The 10% figure was based on Kinsey's study of male prisoners. It was true as far as it went, but really never indicative of the general population as some libs liked to imply.
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