![]() A majority of the country thinks that at least 20 percent of Americans - at least one in five of us - are gay or lesbian. In 2019, it was 23.6 percent - almost a quarter. Heterosexuals make up a greater percentage of the country than white people do on the Supreme Court.īut ask everyday Americans to guess at just the gay and lesbian population, and Gallup shows they consistently overestimate. That majority aside, when we discuss self-identifying gay men, lesbians, asexuals, pansexuals, two-spirit, nonbinary and transgender folks, it’s just roughly 3 percent of the population. More than half of those nonheterosexual Americans (57 percent) are bisexual - by far queer America’s sexual majority, despite its persistent ridicule in supposed safe spaces. or “something other than heterosexual” doubled from 2012 to 2022, soaring to a little more than 7 percent, according to Gallup polling. The percentage of Americans who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. identity is nothing remotely approaching mainstream. Outside of culture wars or activist agendas - strictly by the numbers - L.G.B.T.Q. ![]() Every norm everywhere all at once.īut as a gay man, I celebrate an inconvenient truth of Pride Month: We’ll never be normal. Here a norm, there a norm, everywhere a norm-norm. folks have a peculiar interest in normalization.
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