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Accelerating Acceptance: GLAAD Study Reveals Twenty Percent of Millennials Identify as LGBTQ
GLAAD and Harris Poll shows Millennials more likely to recognize as transgender or outside traditional genders
Acceptance of LGBTQ has slowed since the historic SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality
NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the world’s LGBTQ media advocacy group, today unveiled its third annual Accelerating Acceptance announce, a survey conducted on GLAAD’s behalf by Harris Poll, which shows that young people are significantly more likely to openly identify as LGBTQ than generations before them. The survey – fielded online November 2-4, 2016 among 2,037 U.S. adults ages 18 and older – also shows growing levels of young people who are more likely to identify outside of traditional binaries such as “gay/straight” and “man/woman.”
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“As the administration begins to fulfill its pledges to change position the country backwards, many are concerned about progress made in recent years for the LGBTQ community,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President & CEO. “However, this report shows a remarkable new era of understanding and acceptance among young people –
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Homosexual identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, double attraction, 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 facts 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, bi, 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 craft 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
5 key findings about Diverse Americans
Pew Research Center has been tracking Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage, gender identity and other Gay issues for more than a decade. In that time, we have also done deep explorations of the experiences of LGBT and transgender and nonbinary Americans.
As the United States celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride month, here are five key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans from our recent surveys:
Some 7% of Americans are lesbian, gay or bisexual person, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 12,147 U.S. adults conducted in summer 2022. Some 17% of adults younger than 30 identify as lesbian, gay or attracted to both genders, compared with 8% of those ages 30 to 49, 5% of those 50 to 64 and 2% of those 65 and older. Similar shares of men and women identify with any of these terms, as undertake similar shares of adults across racial and ethnic groups.
How we did this
Pew Research Center sought to provide an overview of findings on LGBTQ+ Americans. The overview is based on data from Center surveys and analyses conducted from 2019 to 2022, including a 2019 investigation of 2017 survey facts from Stanford University. Links to the methodology and questions used can be
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 naming as lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an multiply 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.
Gallup has
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This fact sheet describes the demographics, political leanings, and religious makeup of Generation Z Americans based on data from PRRI’s American Ethics Atlas, which surveys more than 20,000 adults across the country annually. This fact sheet examines how Gen Z adults[1] compare with older generations and takes a deeper dive into differences between Gen Z subgroups on these measures.
In January 2024, PRRI published a report based on both a national survey and nationwide focus groups to better understand Generation Z’s motivations, concerns, and behavior.
Read the report at: prri.org/research/generation-z.
Gen Z’s Racial and Ethnic Makeup and LGBTQ Identity
Gen Z is the only generation in which less than half of its members are white and more Gen Zers identify as LGBTQ than any other generation.
- Gen Z is 49% white compared to 56% of millennials, 61% of Gen Xers, 72% of baby boomers, and 80% of the Silent Generation.
- One-quarter of Gen Zers identify as Hispanic (26%) compared with 21% of millennials, 18% of Gen Xers, 11% of baby boomers, and 7% of the Silent Generation.
- Nearly a quarter of Gen Zers (24%) determine as LGB