[TomOnTheRun]

Interesting. But the surveys are 15-20 years old. I'd be interested in seeing more current ones. Have the numbers shifted in any way - down or up? Has social acceptance driven those numbers up? Or has an increase (if any) remained within the margin that one might expect of people that might have lied due to discomfort or fear of outing themselves suddenly being honest about it? One also wonder what national differences might be trackable and worth noticing.

Sorry. I'm sure you don't have polls about all of these. Mostly thinking aloud in response to your comment.

[ansel12]

The real change in numbers is before about 1990 and after 1990, for generations the left used the fake number of 10% which I don’t think many of us ever believed but it was all the media would give us.

10% would be very close to the size of the black population, 10% homosexuals would mean that they would be everywhere and that they would be a part of our everyday lives, families and social circles, not a rarity.

It was only in the many more serious studies of the last 20 years that we started getting studies that offered more credible numbers of 1.3% and 2% and 2.7% depending on how they are done. Now the gay movement is trying to round everything up to 5% in yet another effort to make a more media friendly number than 1.5 for instance.