How many lgbtq in the us 2021
2021 Officially Becomes Worst Year in Recent History for LGBTQ State Legislative Attacks as Unprecedented Number of States Enact Record-Shattering Number of Anti-LGBTQ Measures Into Law
by Wyatt Ronan •
With Seventeen Anti-LGBTQ Bills Enacted Into Commandment In States So Far This Year, 2021 Surpasses 2015 as Worst Year In Recent History
Detailed Breakdown of 2021 Anti-LGBTQ Articulate Legislation Below
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With an unprecedented number of anti-LGBTQ measures sweeping through state legislatures across the country, 2021 has officially surpassed 2015 as the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history, according to updated tracking and analysis by the Human Rights Campaign (detailed breakdown below). The previous record — put six years ago in 2015, when 15 anti-LGBTQ bills were enacted into law — was broken on Friday, as the seventeenth anti-LGBTQ bill was enacted into law. In addition, 11 anti-LGBTQ bills are on governors’ desks awaiting signature or veto and several more are continuing to move through state legislatures across the country.
The rights of LGBTQ people — and especially transgender people — across the country are being systemat
We Are Here: Gay Adult Population in Joined States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report
by Laurel Powell •
According to an investigation of data in the Census Bureau’s recent Domestic Pulse Survey, 8% of respondents identified themselves as LGBTQ+, suggesting previous surveys undercounted the population.
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) released “We Are Here: Comprehending the Size of the LGBTQ+ Community,” a inform analyzing recent results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. Based on data from respondents in the Household Pulse Survey, a national domestic probability survey of adults in the United States, at least 20 million adults in the Together States could be sapphic, gay, bisexual, or genderqueer - nearly 8% of the total adult population, almost double prior estimates for the LGBTQ+ community’s size. It also suggests that more than 1% of people in the United States identify as transgender, higher than any prior estimates. Additionally, it confirms prior research demonstrating that bisexual people illustrate the largest single contingent of LGBTQ+ people, at about 4% of resp
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS 2020-2021 facts for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of information provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost 13.9 million (13,942,200) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults reside in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Queer identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated numbers from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.
Bisexual adults build up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual. Gay and lesbian are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT
More Americans identify as LGBT than ever before: Poll
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According to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, 5.6% of United States adults identify as LGBT. That's up from 4.5%, based on the company's 2017 data. In 2012, when Gallup began tracking the measure, that number was 3.5%.
For the first time, Gallup also asked respondents to indicate their spot-on sexual orientation, as opposed to responding "yes" or "no" to whether they identify as woman loving woman, gay, bisexual or transgender.
The poll start that more than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) detect as bisexual, about a quarter (24.5%) as gay, 11.7% as lesbian and 11.3% as trans person. An additional 3.3% used a diverse non-heterosexual term to describe their sexual orientation, such as queer or same-gender-loving. Respondents could present multiple responses, bringing the total to over 100%.
Notably, the generational group that has the extreme percentage of people who identify as LGBT is the youngest -- Generation Z (born 1997 to 2002) -- with 15.9%. That compares to 9.1% of millennials (born 1981 to