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How Many American Men Are Gay?
The New York Times ^ | December 7, 2013 | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Posted on 12/09/2013 12:28:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

WHAT percent of American men are gay? This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.

But somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions.

Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell a consistent story.

At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Gay men are half as likely as straight men to acknowledge their sexuality on social networks. More than one quarter of gay men hide their sexuality from anonymous surveys. The evidence also suggests that a large number of gay men are married to women....

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deviant; gay; gomorrah; happy; headcount; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; onemanonewoman; psychology; queers; sodomites
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To: Impy

If worldly means “listens to alternative music and such”.

Never heard of them; the majority of the music I listen to was made before 1970.


201 posted on 12/09/2013 8:50:35 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

When I was a kid there were these 2 guys next door. My dad said they were brothers. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that one was Puerto Rican and the other wasn’t.


202 posted on 12/09/2013 9:00:21 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

Your Dad’s a funny guy!

“It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that one was Puerto Rican and the other wasn’t.”

Maybe one was adopted? :)


203 posted on 12/09/2013 9:01:36 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To damn many!


204 posted on 12/09/2013 9:08:49 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: MuttTheHoople

LOL!


205 posted on 12/09/2013 10:17:04 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: Reeses

I’ve no doubt but that there are more gays in cities, but I’d be curious as to by what process you believe cities make men gay.


206 posted on 12/10/2013 4:39:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Arlis

Folks in rural ‘flyover’ country probably can’t believe it’s as high as 5%, whereas people like me in urban coastal cities probably can’t believe that it is that low.


207 posted on 12/10/2013 4:40:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Ha ha.


208 posted on 12/10/2013 4:41:58 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: bnacat

No pun intended, I’m sure.


209 posted on 12/10/2013 4:42:28 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Based on my non-scientific, anecdotal poll of being in pulic (shopping mall, movie theater, bowling alley, etc.) this Christmas season, I would say 3% of men over 30 and about 15% of men under 30.


210 posted on 12/10/2013 5:18:08 AM PST by wolfman23601
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To: 9YearLurker

They actively recruit in cities.


211 posted on 12/10/2013 5:27:05 AM PST by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601

I don’t think your numbers are far off!

For whatever reason, sons in their teens and 20s in upper-middle-class families seem to be over 20% around here.


212 posted on 12/10/2013 6:10:38 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Bubba_Leroy

LOL - good point. Probably projection on his part...


213 posted on 12/10/2013 6:56:30 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: 9YearLurker
I’ve no doubt but that there are more gays in cities, but I’d be curious as to by what process you believe cities make men gay.

I would guess some combination of recruitment, grooming, alcohol and drugs, parties, government schools and other cultural brainwashing, peer and adult pressure (or rather suction), monkey see/monkey do. A teenager's experiences can significantly shape their sexual orientation for life. Once that concrete has set a do over is impossible.

214 posted on 12/10/2013 6:59:44 AM PST by Reeses
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To: All

it always seems to be the mother and son reference in acceptance anecdotes. The vast majority of fathers have the common sense to reject the “normal” propaganda.


215 posted on 12/10/2013 7:09:03 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a totally unscientific approach to answer the question posed and is more like a argument from random observations. It’s not worthy the paper it’s printed on. Given that it’s presented as somewhat of a scientific explanation, it becomes simply propaganda posing as science, a favorite ploy of the Radical Left.


216 posted on 12/10/2013 8:03:43 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: 9YearLurker

You may be right, but I hope not. But then, most of the population is in the larger coastal cities.

Sickening.....


217 posted on 12/10/2013 8:37:19 AM PST by Arlis
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To: Reeses

Homosexual men prefer cities because they can hide amongst large “communities” like the Castro in SF, and practice their “lifestyle” with a certain amount of anonymity, plus cities tend to be liberal politically. In small towns they stand out like sore, um, thumbs. As for causation, I’m not going there, but I don’t buy the whole mom/dad, recruitment thing. Too many homosexuals knew they were “different” from a very early age for external cultural or parenting factors to be important.


218 posted on 12/10/2013 3:28:11 PM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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