The share of U.S. adults figuring out as LGBTQ+ has continued to extend, reaching a brand new excessive of seven.6% within the newest Gallup ballot.
If present traits proceed, the U.S. LGBTQ+ inhabitants could possibly be 10% inside three many years, Gallup mentioned in the outcomes from 2023 polling.
Gallup mentioned the share of U.S. adults who think about themselves a part of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood has greater than doubled for the reason that group first requested about sexual orientation and transgender identification in 2012.
The present determine is up from 5.6% in 2020, and three.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first yr of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identification.
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Gallup mentioned, every youthful technology is sort of twice as possible because the technology earlier than to self-identify as LGBTQ+.
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Gallup mentioned that greater than 1 in 5 Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, determine as LGBTQ+. The polling company mentioned that 1 in 10 millennials, who’re aged 27 to 42, additionally determine as LGBTQ+.
The share drops to lower than 5% of Technology X, 2% of child boomers, and 1% of the Silent Technology.
Bisexual adults make up the biggest proportion of the LGBTQ+ inhabitants — 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they’re bisexual.
Homosexual and lesbian are the next-most-common identities, every representing barely over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults.
Barely lower than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBTQ+ adults are transgender, Gallup mentioned.
