LGBTQ+ identification in the US has skyrocketed to 9.3%. Found.
A study by Gallup found that something other than lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or heterosexual almost doubled since 2020, up from just 3.5% in 2012. There is a percentage of.
“In the 12 years that Gallup has tracked LGBTQ+ identification, adults during that period are much more likely to say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, so it's almost three years ago. It's doubled,” M. Jones wrote.
“The recent increase is largely due to an increase in adults who say that women in their late teens, 20s and 30s, especially young women, are bisexual,” he added.
Gallup found that LGBTQ+ identification is on the rise among young Americans entering adulthood. The survey says that almost a quarter (23.1%) of Z adults born between 1997 and 2006 are LGBTQ+.
“From millennials to silent generation, each elderly adult has a lower identification rate by 1.8% among the oldest Americans born before 1946,” Jones' analysis detailed.
Of the millennials born between 1982 and 1996, 14.2% say they are LGBTQ+. Of Gen X, 5.1% say it's the same, followed by 3% of the baby boomer generation.
Research shows that Gen Z is “a much more likely to think of it as bisexual than older adults,” making it more identifiable as LGBTQ+ than other generations. Six in 10 Gen Z adults who identified as LGBTQ+ (59%) said they were similarly bisexual, and 52% of LGBTQ+ millennials said they were similarly bisexual. Stocks fell to 44% among LGBTQ+ Gen Xers, accounting for less than 20% of LGBTQ+ baby boomers and 11% of LGBTQ+ silent generation adults.
Of the US adults, 1.4% said they were lesbian, 2% said they were gay, 5.2% said they were bisexual, and 1.3% said they were transgender.
Of the adults identified as LGBTQ+, 56.3% said they were bisexual, 14.6% said they were lesbian, 21.1% said they were gay and 13.9% said they were transgender. Almost 4% of LGBTQ+ respondents said they were “other,” while 1% identified as Pansexual, and 1.2% said they were asexual.
Gallup further found that LGBTQ+ identification differed by gender, political orientation, and urbanity.
“Whether it's political selection or something else, Democrats (14%) and independents (11%) are more likely to identify with LGBTQ+ than Republicans (3%), Jones said. I am writing.
The differences are even more severe in each ideology, with 21% of liberals saying they are LGBTQ+ compared to 8% of LGBTQ+ and 3% of conservatives.
By gender, 10% of women versus 6% of men are identified as LGBTQ+. This is a difference caused primarily by women being more likely to identify as bisexual than men, the study found.
The gap between genders is much more pronounced among Gen Z and millennials. 31% of GenZ women vs. 12% of GenZ men are identified as LGBTQ+, with 18% of millennial women and 9% of millennial men being similar. Polls show that most women say they are bisexual.
Gallup found that people living in cities were more likely to identify as LGBTQ+ (11%) compared to suburban people (10%) and rural areas (7%). University alumni (9%) and non-graduates (10%) may identify similarly to those not heterosexual.
Jones rated the percentage of LGBTQ+ identification as “it's likely to continue growing given the ongoing generational change.”
The survey was based on interviews with over 14,000 US adults across all of the 2024 Gallup Telephone Survey.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on x @thekat_hamilton.
