Population of gay people in america
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification finds 9.3% of U.S. adults detecting as lesbian, gay, bi, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an grow of more than a percentage point versus the prior estimate, from 2023. Longer term, the figure has nearly doubled since 2020 and is up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup first measured it.
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LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans enter adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- identify as LGBTQ+. Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946.
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LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people have also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years.
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LGBT Populations
This guide shows the estimated crude number of LGBT people (ages 13+) living in each state. The statistics are based on a Williams Institute analysis of surveys conducted by Gallup Polling (2012-2017) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 2015 and 2017 YRBS). For more knowledge, see the methodology in the Williams analysis.
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8K - 49K
Data are not currently available about LGBT people living in the U.S. territories.
Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ individual population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ senior population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
This blueprint shows the estimated percentage of each state's elder (ages 18+) population that identifies as lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, or transgender, based on a 2018 study of Gallup data by The Williams Institute.
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Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws
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We Are Here: LGBTQ+ Adult Population in United States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation State
by Laurel Powell •
According to an analysis of information in the Census Bureau’s recent Familiar Pulse Survey, 8% of respondents identified themselves as Queer, suggesting previous surveys undercounted the population.
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) released “We Are Here: Understanding the Size of the Queer Community,” a describe analyzing recent results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Domesticated Pulse Survey. Based on data from respondents in the Household Pulse Survey, a national familiar probability survey of adults in the United States, at least 20 million adults in the United States could be lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, or transsexual - nearly 8% of the total adult population, almost double prior estimates for the Homosexual community’s size. It also suggests that more than 1% of people in the United States identify as trans, higher than any prior estimates. Additionally, it confirms prior research showing that bisexual people symbolize the largest solo contingent of Queer 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 facts 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 dwell in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT
What percentage of the US population is LGBTQ? New statistics shows which states have the most
New data estimates the greatest number of lesbian, gay, pansexual and transgender U.S. adults live in the South, confirming findings from recent years.
Across the state, researchers estimate more than 5% of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+, matching prior LGBTQ+ population information. Young people ages 18-24 are much more likely to identify as Homosexual, according to the report from the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles.
The report, based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, found that in 2020 and 2021, there were nearly 14 million LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. − with some states having noticeably higher percentages of male lover and queer residents than others.
Earlier this year, a poll from Gallup create a slightly higher percentage of U.S. adults are Queer. Overall, multiple polls show that the adult LGBTQ population has been steadily increasing for years.
"Look at the numbers, more people are coming out younger and people are coming out in places where LGBTQ folks have been less out and visible," Cathy Renna, a spokesperson for the National LGBTQ Task Force, told USA