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A February 2023 Gallup poll reported that 7.2% of US adults identify as LGBT, 86% identified as straight or heterosexual, while 7% chose not to answer. 13.4% of LGBT respondents were lesbian, 20.2% gay, 58.2% bisexual, 8.8% transgender, and 6% as another LGBT identity (e.g., pansexual).
Mar 13, 2024 · The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the last 12 years, according to new polling from Gallup. The latest results show that 7.6% of U.S. adults now align...
Apr 25, 2024 · In addition, the visualization shows how the LGBT and non-LGBT populations compare across demographic and economic characteristics: Nearly a quarter (24.6%) of LGBT respondents were 18-24 years old, compared to 7.3% of non-LGBT respondents. A higher share (21.3%) of LGBT respondents than non-LGBT (15.9%) respondents were Hispanic.
Around 7.1 percent of adults in the United States stated that they identify as LGBT in 2021, which was more than double than in 2012. Of these, roughly 3.3 percent identified themselves as...
More than half (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast (2.6 million).
U.S. LGBTQ+ identification breaks down in the following manner: Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population (57.3%). Gay (18.1%) and lesbian (15.1%) are the...
Dec 9, 2021 · Bisexual people made up the largest single demographic, at about 4% of respondents. California and Texas were the states with the largest number of LGBTQ+ adult residents, with an estimated 2.6 million and 1.7 million respectively. LGBTQ+ people live in every community in every state.
