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Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S.
Gallup ^ | 05/21/2015 | Frank Newport

Posted on 08/26/2015 8:35:31 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans' 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population. These estimates are many times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in Gallup Daily tracking in the first four months of this year.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gay; gaykkk; gaynewsrooms; gays; homosexual; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; thebiglie
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

i doubt its even 3.8%


21 posted on 08/26/2015 9:00:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: bgill
They must only be polling a women’s studies class and a men’s water ballet team to come up with 1 in 4 are gay.

Or watching too much Wheel of Fortune.

22 posted on 08/26/2015 9:01:31 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Probably this figure gets inflated in people’s minds because they wrongly (in most cases) suspect the following all-too-prevalent demographics to be either lesbian or gay:

Ugly feminists
Male friends of feminists
Metrosexual males
Unisex-fashion females


23 posted on 08/26/2015 9:02:29 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: Larry Lucido; nickcarraway; Gamecock; SaveFerris

Alton Benes.

"He pretty much thinks everyone is gay."

24 posted on 08/26/2015 9:12:23 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

There’s a very good chance this is bogus, to advance the idea it’s 3.8%, and not get negative feed back.

Traditional estimates have hovered around 2% when I’ve seen it addressed before.

What better way to reduce resistance by declaring most folks think it’s 25%, only to reveal 3.8%?

I remain unconvinced it’s 3.8%.


25 posted on 08/26/2015 9:13:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

It’s not the populace that has a huge number of gay/lesbian/etc. It’s our government.


26 posted on 08/26/2015 9:17:03 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

My “Dontgiveashit Meter is pegged!


27 posted on 08/26/2015 9:23:22 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: TigerClaws; All
The overestimation is due to media. Vastly over represented there for the purpose of the agenda.

Americans [are indoctrinated by the corrupt, pro-gay media to] Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S.

There! fixed it.

28 posted on 08/26/2015 9:28:21 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

It’s the boob tube idiots. If you believed those shows you’d think every household either had a gay or a gay friend.


29 posted on 08/26/2015 9:44:58 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Just flew back from San Fran and that town gives me the Willies! 3.8% is an underestimation of the queers is that town. I’m thinking 30% there that makes up for the many towns that have 0.00001%. SHEESH!


30 posted on 08/26/2015 10:10:56 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

I always thought my category was never used as a demographic statistic. What pigeon hole do they put me? I am physically male. However I feel that I am a lesbian trapped in a male body. I have a passionate attraction toward women but feel that I am a person without an identity.


31 posted on 08/26/2015 10:13:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: FredZarguna
"What are you, some kind of homo?"


32 posted on 08/26/2015 10:26:57 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: headstamp 2

Not just media, though that is a big part of it.
As a group they are VERY POLITICALLY ACTIVE and as a protected species they are pretty much untouchable now days.
Every body from the press, to politicians, to judges, are terrified of being labeled some type of PHOBE.
I, on the other hand am proud of being ANTI; phobe suggests fear, and the last time I was afraid of somebodies opinion of me was with my mother and father and their both gone many years ago.


33 posted on 08/26/2015 11:12:41 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S.
Who does that?
34 posted on 08/26/2015 11:13:32 PM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: TigerClaws

I would not be surprised if it was around 3 or 4 percent they are very vocal for there percentage


35 posted on 08/26/2015 11:43:02 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: central_va
"The closet should be re opened....."

Agreed. I'm sick of these people identifying themselves by their sexual preference. I don't give one frig who you sleep with. It's become obvious that you live your lives by your sexual identity. You are sad people.

36 posted on 08/27/2015 12:18:43 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

The “American People” have NEVER fallen for the fake numbers. When the guesses first began, the number was estimated between 1-2%. The homosexual nut jobs took that number and turned it into 10% and kept running...

The real number is closer to the 1%.... 1% of the American population who have chosen to give in to their sin and reject God’s design (and many then call God evil in saying He made them that way).


37 posted on 08/27/2015 12:18:50 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: TigerClaws

There is one on every TV show.


38 posted on 08/27/2015 3:12:56 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

How do they exert so much pressure? Why do they have so much political power?


39 posted on 08/27/2015 4:57:42 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: dfwgator

Now that the homosexual irrationally high and wrong numbers are accepted because of media, we are now seeing the second wave of propaganda. . .the irrationally high and wrong numbers of interracial couples and the mixed-race child.

They are featured now in almost every commercial, and most certainly in all shows and movies, one would think the number of interracial couples numbers about 30-50% of all couples. Same with mixed-race children. . .

Like most Americans, I resent having agendas forced upon me.


40 posted on 08/27/2015 4:59:03 AM PDT by Hulka
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