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Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are
The Atlantic ^ | May 31, 2012 | Garance Franke-Ruta

Posted on 05/31/2012 12:14:09 PM PDT by C19fan

One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it's among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.

What percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? A lower one than you might think -- and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.

In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexuals
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To: BenLurkin

“Young people today think that the goal in life is to have sex with everybody...”

Don’t make me get out the Helen Thomas picture!


41 posted on 05/31/2012 1:59:10 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: MtBaldy
And 30-40% of the best, brightest, kindest, and most accomplished of the population are black.

And 95% of white males are morons.

42 posted on 05/31/2012 2:07:16 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Williams

“The “B” in LGBT”

This is one thing I’ve never been able to get a straight answer from anyone who defends homosexuality. Bisexualism…if it’s NOT a choice, please explain it? I don’t believe most gays are born this way, but I do believe many of them are that way by the age of 5.

But definitely NOT ALL of them. For some of them, it is a choice.


43 posted on 05/31/2012 2:10:55 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: C19fan

And 80% live in Massachusetts.


44 posted on 05/31/2012 2:35:32 PM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: isthisnickcool
Today, as then, all I care about when it comes to homosexuals is that they just shut up.

The "love that dare not speak its name" now refuses to shut the hell up!

45 posted on 05/31/2012 2:50:22 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: EyeGuy
What’s the word for when one is surrounded by hopelessly abject ignorance and stupidity?

0 bummer voters. What do I win??

46 posted on 05/31/2012 3:03:56 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: JimRed

Too true.


47 posted on 05/31/2012 3:24:44 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: skinndogNN

I believe it is the book “Kinsey and Consequences” or another related book that found that boys who had been sexually abused were more likely to become “homosexual”.


48 posted on 05/31/2012 4:14:21 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: A message

Picture the whole world as a cow that can always be milked, a place where nothing moral or cultural can pose a credible challenge to the dictatorship of the secular mass market.


49 posted on 05/31/2012 5:43:18 PM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Inspectorette

Just the ones who aren’t gay.


50 posted on 06/01/2012 7:42:06 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: C19fan

bm


51 posted on 06/02/2012 6:40:04 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: C19fan

Even my wife’s hairdresser is straight, and we live in New England...


52 posted on 06/02/2012 6:47:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

It is shameless how the gay 1% have ruined so many functioning gaydars (through excessive vigilance and use) by exaggerating the % of homos.


53 posted on 06/02/2012 7:11:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Nikita knew what he was talking about in 1959...these lies about the percentage of sodomites in the population are facilitated by Nikita's comrades in the media. It is deliberate, and it is effective.

54 posted on 06/02/2012 7:23:43 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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