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LGBTs Are 10% Of US Population? Wrong, Says Demographer He's a demographer who recently released a report estimating that the LGBT population makes up about 3.8 percent of the U.S. population. That's a contrast to figures that had long been cited. Also joining us, Judy Bradford, director of the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health.
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- concludes with estimates of the size of the LGBT population in the United States. Key findings from the research brief are as follows:  An estimated 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and. an estimated 0.3% of adults are transgender.  This implies that there are approximately 9 million LGBT Americans, a figure roughly. equivalent to the population of New Jersey.  Among adults who identify as LGB, bisexuals comprise a slight majority (1.8% compared. to 1.7% who identify as lesbian or gay).
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Gay Americans Make Up 4 Percent of Population Email. An estimated 9 million Americans -- or nearly 4 percent of the total population -- say they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new report released this week from the Williams Institute, a think-tank devoted to LGBT research at UCLA.he report is the most up-to-date assessment of that population and produced a lower population percentage than the 10 percent number that advocacy groups have used in the past, which was based on Alfred Kinsey studies from 1948.
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What percentage of the U.S. population is gay, lesbian or bisexual? A survey released Tuesday by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports: Based on the 2013 NHIS data [collected in 2013 from 34,557 adults aged 18 and over], 96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual.
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LGBT Percentage Highest in D.C., Lowest in North Dakota PRINCETON, NJ -- The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) ranges from 1.7% in North Dakota to 5.1% in Hawaii and 10% in the District of Columbia, according to Gallup surveys conducted from June-December 2012.
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1.4 Million Adults Identify As Transgender In America, Study Says The highest percentages of adults identifying as transgender per state were found in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and New Mexico — all with 0.8 percent — followed by Texas and Florida with 0.7 percent, according to the study.
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- August 6, 2012. How many gay and lesbian are there in the United States? The 2010 census counted 308 million people living in the U.S. At the very least, 75% of the U.S. population identifies as Christian (it’s probably closer to 80%), which comes to roughly 231 million people.
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- Glowimages/Getty Images. The number of lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons in the U.S. is subjective and GLB population studies are estimates at best. The most widely accepted statistic is the 1 in 10 convention (for every ten people, one is gay); however research shows that the number may be more like 1 in 20.lowimages/Getty Images. The number of lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons in the U.S. is subjective and GLB population studies are estimates at best. The most widely accepted statistic is the 1 in 10 convention (for every ten people, one is gay); however research shows that the number may be more like 1 in 20.
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Pew Study Shows That 48% of LGBT Adults Are Non-Religious A new survey of LGBT adults by the Pew Research Center reveals a lot about the intersection of homosexuality and religion. Let’s run through the data (PDF): When it comes to the religious beliefs of LGBT adults, 48% are non-religious and as astonishing 17% of them are atheists or agnostics:
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The American Transgender Population Is Larger Than We Thought It Was CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK/J. BICKING. Determining how many transgender people there are in the U.S. has been challenging for a number of reasons, but a new study from the Williams Institute estimates that there are approximately 1.4 million of them — twice as many as were previously estimated. That’s 0.6 percent of the population.
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-  An estimated 3 million LGBT Americans have had. a child and as many as 6 million American. children and adults have an LGBT parent.  Among those under age 50 who are living alone. or with a spouse or partner, nearly half of LGBT. women (48%) are raising a child under age 18. along with a fifth of LGBT men (20%).  More than 125,000 same-sex couple households (19%) include nearly 220,000 children under age.
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A Survey of LGBT Americans A Survey of LGBT Americans. An overwhelming share of America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults (92%) say society has become more accepting of them in the past decade and an equal number expect it to grow even more accepting in the decade ahead.
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- As LGBT people are still persecuted in the United States, it is  likely that most of the 11% who engaged in same-sex sexual behavior  are gay or bisexual but have chosen to not identify as gay in order  to conform to cultural pressure.
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Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S. Whereas 38% of Americans said gay and lesbian relations were morally acceptable in 2002, that number has risen to 63% today. And while 35% of Americans favored legalized same-sex marriage in 1999, 60% favor it today. The U.S. Census Bureau documents the number of individuals living in same-sex households but has not historically identified individuals as gay or lesbian per se.
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Gay Americans Make Up 4 Percent of Population An estimated 9 million Americans -- or nearly 4 percent of the total population -- say they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new report released this week from the Williams Institute, a think-tank devoted to LGBT research at UCLA.
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Nationwide gay and lesbian population count breaks new ground “Therefore, it's likely that some Americans in what is commonly referred to as ‘the closet’ would not be included in the estimates derived from the Gallup interviews. Jim Key, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, agreed that the study probably underrepresented the number of LGBT people nationwide.
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- Most LGBT-Friendly Cities. Seattle is home to the highest percentage of same-sex households of all major cities in the U.S. and gay marriage is legal in the state of Washington. Furthermore, the city has an equality index of 100 and a relatively low rate of sexual orientation-related hate crimes.
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- Hawaii has the highest percentage of adults. who identify as transgender, approximately 0.8% of adults, and North Dakota has the lowest percentage, at 0.3%. The District of Columbia is notable for its relatively high percentage of transgender-identified adults (2.8%).6 Twenty.
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Just How Many LGBT Americans Are There? Using Gallup data taken from interviews with over 1.6 million adults, demographer Gary J. Gates reported that 10 million Americans—4 percent of the population—now identify as LGBT. That includes a record-high 7.3 percent of people born between 1980 and 1998 who now identify as LGBT—up from 5.8 percent in 2012.
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How Many LGBT's Live in America? The research shows that slightly more people identify as bisexual (1.8%) than as lesbian or gay (1.7%), and women are more likely than men to identify as bisexual. The Los Angeles–based think tank came to the number after cross-referencing four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys.
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- LGBTs Are 10% Of US Population? Wrong, Says Demographer Host Michel Martin and Judy Bradford of the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health
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How many gay people are there in the world? The US Census does not collect data on sexuality; however,  according to a recent study by the Williams Institute at the  University of California, 11% of the adult populati … on has engaged  in same-sex sexual behavior, but only 3.5% of the population  identifies as being lesbian, gay, or bi-sexual.
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How Many People are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender? Drawing on information from four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys, the analyses suggest that there are more than 8 million adults in the US who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual, comprising 3.5% of the adult population.n estimated 19 million Americans (8.2%) report that they have engaged in same-sex sexual behavior and nearly 25.6 million Americans (11%) acknowledge at least some same-sex sexual attraction. Click here for the full report.
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Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S. princeton n j the american public estimates on average that 23 % of americans are gay or lesbian little changed from americans 25 % estimate in 2011 and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian populationrinceton n j the american public estimates on average that 23 % of americans are gay or lesbian little changed from americans 25 % estimate in 2011 and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population
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What percentage of the US population identify as transgender? The answer is uncertain. It is estimated that there are about 700,000 transgender people in the US, but that estimate involves a lot of guesswork. See Why We Don't Know The Size Of The Transgender Population.