ONLY??? i'd say it'd inflated by at least 150%...
Posted on 10/18/2012 3:41:04 PM PDT by neverdem
A massive new survey published this morning reveals that only 3.4% of American adults publicly identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, with the highest percentage coming among the younger, less-educated non-whites.
The new Gallup Poll of more than 121,000 adults, the largest of its kind on record, wass conducted during the past four months. It finds the percentage of self-reported LGBT Americans to be much smaller than a general impression derived from their presence in popular culture and their perceived influence in liberal American politics.
The special report found 3.4% of adult Americans publicly reporting themselves as personally identifying with those categories, 92.2% saying they do not and 4.4% refusing to say or claiming not to know.
Given the stigma often attached by some to those categories, some unknown portion of the Didn't Say's and No's presumably are choosing to remain in the closet, holding down the LGBT number somewhat.
"This initial analysis," Gallup reports, "reveals new insights into the composition of the LGBT community in the U.S. In particular, the findings challenge both media and cultural stereotypes to reveal that the LGBT population is in a number of ways not that different from the broader U.S. population."
Gallup also found the social characteristics of those self-reporting themselves as LGBT is dramatically different from their portrayal in the media as largely white, well-educated and well-to-do.
The largest percentage (4.6%) came among blacks, followed by Asians (4.3%), Hispanics (4%) and non-Hispanic whites (3.2%).
Results showed that a larger percentage of women, especially younger women, reported themselves as LGBT (3.6%) compared to men (3.3%).
And Gallup reports those publicly asserting to be LGBT tend to be younger, less-educated and less wealthy than the rest of the population...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
“For decades it was the absurd 10% figure - to give homosexuals more political power.”
Yup. The 10% claim was completely fabricated by some early gay activist, who claimed it was a scientific statistic from the Kinsey Report. Only problem was, there was nothing in Kinsey’s work that ever actually said that. So it has been nothing more than a popular myth from the get go.
10. Seems a bit high to me.
Correlates fairly well with the excerpt below ...
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/305110e6#/305110e6/1
Whistleblower, Vol. 20. #2. February 2011
(A publication by the Family Research Council covering the anticipated problems which may result with the repeal of DADT in the U.S. military by Congress.)
“Dropping the ‘H’-Bomb”
... amicus brief, 2003 SCOTUS case Lawrence v. Texas: … The most widely accepted study of sexual practices in the United States is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS). The NHSLS found that 2.8% of the male, and 1.4% of the female, population identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. See Laumann et al, The Social Organization of Sex: Sexual Practices in the United States (1994) ...
ONLY??? i'd say it'd inflated by at least 150%...
It’s way, way low for where I live.
I swear, one out of five boys in upper-middle class families coming of age this decade is coming out as gay. Why are the numbers so high in that demographic? I don’t know.
For white boys, it’s the only way to enter a privileged demographic group. It looks cool in the TV shows and music videos, from “True Blood” to a host of sitcoms. You get more opportunities for sex than with girls, and less criticism for the promiscuity. If you are caught with a girl, you say you’re experimenting or bisexual or trying to change your orientation to please your parents.
I only ended up getting rejected by everyone, instead of just half of them.
Interesting thoughts. I could see how two decades of anti-white, heterosexual male propaganda have an impact.
This might be the same group that's clueless about political questions - but answers with great authority. Questions like 'Do you feel Tom Hanks Vice President of the United States should give up his membership in the Bull Moose Party." There are groups that would give a definitive answer to the above bogus question. I'm with you - 2% is about it.
More than half likely lied to pump the poll numbers. The LGBT have many liberal allies.
If you were rejected by everyone, it seems that you didn’t try very hard.
And for the B(isexuals) it truly is a choice.
I think that was meant to be a joke.
Like I used to tell people that I was just a lesbian trapped in a male's body.
Try to understand the humor here.
And BTW, I am damn sick of the constant bitching from the deviants. Do what ever you want with each other... I don't care. But don't try to tell me it's 'normal' because it ain't.
That is one of the most trustworthy studies I know of. The real numbers are probably pretty close to what is reported.
Yes, lets bend over backwards for this guy:
10,000,000+ who admit to it
The poofs I know are voting for R/R. Even they’ve had enough of amateur hour in the White House.
I don't know any who admit it.
What about ‘marriage equality ’ and DADT?
He can distance the military from the civilian legal system which 0bama has been moving towards.. Trying TERRORISTS in New York.. Romney needs to reel that back and quick!
Sorry, I meant : “I don’t know anyone who admits that they are LGBT”
Puts this somewhere between imprisoned and illegals as far as percentages.
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