https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nearly-30-gen-z-women-identify-lgbtq-gallup-survey-finds-rcna143019
Women ages 18 to 26 were more than twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ than their millennial counterparts, the survey found.
And it'll continue to spike up until we hit the "actual" values, when we are destigmatized and, hopefully, not oppressed by systems and people.
Don't forget that bisexual and pansexual are included. It's very common for basically all women to identify as bisexual at least, because women sure are pretty!
Here to say this. I suspect in a sex positive society that didn't look poorly on bisexuals, we'd have 50% or more bi and pan. Curiously, while bi women are regarded as LGBT+ by MAGA and Christian nationalists, bi men have to commonly remain closeted when in a het relationship. I don't personally understand the why, but it's a thing.
I'm a pansexual man married to a pansexual woman. We're both millenials.
Basically, when we were growing up, there was a perception that men who were ever attracted to other men, in any context and for any reason, were considered fully gay, which at the time meant bullying, being ostracized, threats of violence, and generally being treated as a lesser by your peers.
This waned somewhat as we got to high school and disappeared for the most part some time in the mid 2010s (so, well after graduation), but the cultural scar is still there.
Even now I'd call myself mostly-closeted. People from my generation and older will treat (or at least historically have treated) a man as if he's gay and in-denial even if he's like a solid 2 on the Kinsey scale. That's annoying in-itself, but the scars of how our culture was when I was growing up make it a deeply frightening prospect. I have no idea how many friends I'd lose. I hope it'd be zero since I try to pick good people, but who knows?
Being old sucks. Don't let the olds lie and say the culture was better back in the day. It wasn't. They either floated by with crazy privilege or decided their emotionally stunting trauma was a good thing.
Taylor Tomlinson had a great joke.
She said she didn't want to date woman because she was too old to learn a new skill set.
I'd be interested to know if the survey includes trans women under the 'women' category. This seems like a real dilemma which can skew the numbers even more.
Depending on if you limit your categories to AFAB or not, you'll get different numbers for the total percentage of LGBTQIA+.
I could just read the article of course, but who has that kind of time xD.
It includes transgender women, but I don't think doing so skews the numbers. AFAIK in the US there are about the same number of trans women as trans men, so any increase in the queer percentage from trans women would be balanced out by the decrease from excluding trans men.
I'd expect an AFAB-specific poll to have a slightly higher queer percentage, since it would include nonbinary people while this poll excludes them.
Just because it's tough out there doesn't mean you're terrible! I hope you find someone soon, you deserve it.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the U.S. continues to increase, reaching an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023, according to a new Gallup report.
Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ.
“Almost 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual,” Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, told NBC News.
The survey reported margins of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points among LGBTQ respondents.
As Gallup has noted in its previous annual surveys, younger generations are far more likely to identify as LGBTQ than their older counterparts.
Since Gallup started measuring the U.S. LGBTQ population in 2012, when 3.5% of respondents identified as part of the community, there has been a consistent increase.
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