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In U.S., Estimate of LGBT Population Rises to 4.5%
Gallup ^ | May 22nd 2018 | Frank Newport

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexual; homosexualagenda; lgtb; moralabsolutes; population
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To: Ennis85
Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.

They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!

THAT is why their numbers are increasing!!!!

>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/< On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.

The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.

61 posted on 05/22/2018 5:38:21 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Ennis85

Amazing how these genetically superior beings are reproducing so quickly.


62 posted on 05/22/2018 5:40:36 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: Ennis85

you can bet that it is a lie. total gay population is around that number. the feds used to promote that gays were 15% of the population


63 posted on 05/22/2018 5:41:45 PM PDT by dirtymac
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To: Ennis85

According to the CDC survey, the number is 2.3%.


64 posted on 05/22/2018 5:45:30 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: DoughtyOne
Regardless, it's pretty disgusting a number that tiny can make politicians and school admins quake in their damn diapers. 😡
65 posted on 05/22/2018 6:00:55 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kazan

“How is this possible when homosexual activists have claimed for years that 10% of the population is gay?”

By playing with definitions.
Some Homosexual activist has (at least some of them)in the past tried to say that any boy who engaged in regular masturbation behaving in a pre-homosexual act. If you, a regular guy have ever looked a guy with a good physique and said, “Wow what a body!” you might have unrealized homosexual drives.

My personal pet peeve with the homosexual lobby is they are found of all having known or known of the man who is married with kids, usually a deacon in the church or some such who wakes up one day and realizes he is a homosexual and leaves his family for Bob or Steve at work. My question is, if that can happen then why don’t they admit it could happen in reverse? Why can’t a homosexual man wake up one fine morning and exclaim, “I don’t like this? This is wrong. I’m not gay!” and then give up the lifestyle and get help doing so?


66 posted on 05/22/2018 6:34:42 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Ennis85

It will be at 50% in 10 years. Its chic to be LGBT


67 posted on 05/22/2018 6:38:56 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: rktman

Yes, I agree. Even at 10%, that would leave a 9 to 1 ratio of potential voters not able to see your reason for backing something that has been a main stream taboo since recorded history.


68 posted on 05/22/2018 6:51:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Ennis85

They say it’s pretty high among female professional golfers.


69 posted on 05/22/2018 6:52:59 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Ennis85

I doubt that their survey is accurate if conducted by telephone interviews.


70 posted on 05/22/2018 6:56:29 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: DoughtyOne

5% is probably close for high school and young college ages. The propaganda to get them to be promiscuous and “experiment” is intense. By the time they get to the real world, I suspect the percentage is way down.


71 posted on 05/22/2018 7:15:25 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: DoughtyOne

5% is probably close for high school and young college ages. The propaganda to get them to be promiscuous and “experiment” is intense. By the time they get to the real world, I suspect the percentage is way down.


72 posted on 05/22/2018 7:23:14 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Ennis85

Depravity. It rose due to it being a fad and so very trendy.


73 posted on 05/22/2018 7:26:01 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DoughtyOne

On a realistic note, I’m amazed at the herd mentality and very grateful that I have the personal mental strength and the various role models who demonstrated that independent/critical thinking are the key.

Today’s youth are not so self assured and many have claimed to be gay or ‘transgender’ (mocking quotes intentional) merely out of desperation to belong. Combine this with cheap vacuous praise for ‘coming out’ and you have a recipe for many insecure, misguided young people seeking that fleeting moment of approbation. Drunk on their newfound and often fatuous sexual identity, they find the hangover lasts years or even a lifetime.

Even if we accept that gays are ‘born that way’ then, as one astute observer noted, their numbers should remain steady at best and more likely decrease since they cannot produce offspring (as a couple at least). Most gays are secular and most secularists believe in evolution. However, they seem unable or unwilling to apply the ‘laws’ of natural selection to homosexuality which, by their own scientific standard, has to be regarded as a hindrance to passing on their DNA at best and a dead-end mutation at worst. In other words, they’re hypocrites.

‘Transgenderism,’ on the other hand, is completely untethered from science. It’s the Pet Rock of the 21st Century - a fad drawing in the most desperate and gullible. There have been gay people throughout history. There is androgyny in many cultures. But ‘transitioning’ and demanding the world reverse its axis to suit certain individuals is reductio ad absurdum of social media. These are people threatened by the notion they may be boring, average, plain, etc. What better way to draw attention than to shock the world’s sensibilities and to demand their homes, offices, etc. be retrofitted and that language, pronouns, and even thoughts be controlled and/or modified? It is a cowardly narcissist’s dream scenario - now being indulged by parents, schools, even the courts.

In any case, pollsters have had their day. Their methods, their samples, their ‘weighting’ and their biases are evident to all and their days of easy money and PR based on the Appeal To Majority Fallacy are largely over.


74 posted on 05/22/2018 7:28:23 PM PDT by relictele
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To: bgill
Depravity. It rose due to it being a fad and so very trendy.

They can't multiply the natural way so they recruit kids. I can remember when they weren't allowed to be teachers.

75 posted on 05/22/2018 7:31:44 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Ennis85

Feminism and fatherlessness.


76 posted on 05/22/2018 7:51:54 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Ennis85

They managed to convince another 1% of the weak-minded that it’s okay to cop to being a pervert.


77 posted on 05/22/2018 8:09:45 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: Ennis85

Wow. That’s a whole 1%. Stop the presses!

Sarcasm aside, people with same sex attraction are a tiny minority with a big media voice that are similar to blacks and women in media. It’s all about identity politics. “Look at me, since I am gay, black, female and non-Christian.” Boring.


78 posted on 05/22/2018 8:19:13 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Ennis85

Public, religious, and university education results. A well plotted plan to teach perversion.


79 posted on 05/22/2018 8:25:48 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Ennis85

Indoctrination and mental abuse in schools and “pop culture “ pushing what was described in Romans chapter 1.


80 posted on 05/22/2018 10:16:19 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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