New Gallop on LGTB} If Numbers Keep Dropping There Would Be Nobody Left to Marry
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The new number on this particular survey is a very low number. These were people that were interviewed and where asked the magical question. Which means these are people that had to be out. Keep in mind that this is not how many gay people there are in the United States. There have been numbers thrown about on these particular subject for ever. 30 years ago 20% was being thrown about. The religious people and the anti gay government officials decided that the number of 20% was too high and 10% had to be the maximum number. Probably being that they had the other 10% hidden in their closet, 20% was way too much. I remember when the politicians against gays serving in the military and using the number of 10% and using that number to say that was not enough of us to make 'special rules’. Not long ago I was listening to people say 5%, again cut in half.
Now that many LGTB community wants out of the closet and thus wants the identical same rights as straight citizens of this country, including gay marriage; The number has been coming down as low as 2%. The Gallop survey now indicates that the number of adults, gay, lesbian and transgender all mixed together is 3.4% For that they asked121,000 people of a population of 3.5 Million people as 2012 (Wikipedia). 121,000 is a large number of subjects, but you can’t take that number based on the gay question as the only factor. Admitting that you are gay is a BIG problem for a LARGE amount of people.
Being that the number of us keep dropping, I think that by the time we get the right to marry our partners, there would be none of us left.
I have nothing against the Gallo polls. They are very respectable and the number they used on this survey is rather large as far as other surveys go. We also know they are the ones that follow the political races in this country(along with the media) and know how many times they have been wrong. More times wrong than right. Asking people a question either over the phone, on the street or in an office does not say a lot about the honesty of the answer. We know the police does not consider eye witness the best tool to convict a defendant. They would rather have finger prints, DNA or other non human tool. The reason for that is that human beings are not honest all the time and memories and opinions change all the time.
One thing is to ask wether you are voting Obama or Romney and another one is to ask if you are one of the hated, bullied and killed for just being you.
One thing is to ask wether you are voting Obama or Romney and another one is to ask if you are one of the hated, bullied and killed for just being you.
I really don’t think that anyone except some of the LGTB community want to really know how many of us there are. They know that there would be a bunch of hearts stopping if something to the real number came out. For instance when the government wanted to know the population of whites, hispanics, blacks, etc. They do a census. For the LGTB population the government keeps refusing to put the question on the census. It wont be 100 percent correct, but it will be a tool that would encourage people to tell the truth. I think sitting secure in their own homes without anybody to judge will encourage a more honest behavior.
The only positive and accurate about this survey is that it shows that gays are not all anglo- saxons.
The only positive and accurate about this survey is that it shows that gays are not all anglo- saxons.
(Adam Gonzalez, Publisher for adamfoxie*)
I’m posting below the first report to hit the net today:
A new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
The findings, released Thursday, were based on interviews with more than 121,000 people. Gallup said it is the largest study ever aimed at calculating the nation's LGBT population.
The report's lead author, demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, said he hoped the findings would help puncture some stereotypes about gays and lesbians while illustrating the diversity of their community.
"Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy," he said. "But this data reveal that relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of nonwhite people and clearly is not overly wealthy."
According to the survey, which was conducted between June and September, 4.6 percent of African-Americans identify as LGBT, 4 percent of Hispanics, 4.3 percent of Asians and 3.2 percent of whites. Overall, a third of those identifying as LGBT are nonwhite, the report said.
There was a slight gender difference — 3.6 percent of women identified as LGBT, compared to 3.3 percent of men. And younger adults, aged 18 to 29, were more likely than their elders to identify as LGBT.
One striking difference: among 18-to-29-year-olds, 8.3 percent of women identify as LGBT, compared with 4.6 percent of men the same age.
In contrast to some previous, smaller studies, the Gallup survey found that identification as LGBT is highest among Americans with the lowest levels of education. Among those with a high school education or less, 3.5 percent identify as LGBT, compared with 2.8 percent of those with a college degree and 3.2 percent of those with postgraduate education.
A similar pattern was found regarding income groups. More than 5 percent of those with annual incomes of less than $24,000 identify as LGBT, compared to 2.8 percent of those making more than $60,000 a year.
Among those who report income, about 16 percent of LGBT individuals have incomes above $90,000 per year, compared with 21 percent of the overall adult population, the Gallup survey found. It said 35 percent of those who identify as LGBT report incomes of less than $24,000 a year, compared to 24 percent for the population in general.
Regarding family status, 20 percent of LGBT individuals said they are married and an additional 18 percent are living with a partner; they weren't asked about the gender of those spouses and partners. Among non-LGBT Americans, 54 percent are married and 4 percent are living with a partner, the report said.
The survey found that 32 percent of both LGBT and non-LGBT women have children under 18 in their home. By contrast, 16 percent of LGBT men had children in their home, compared to 31 percent of non-LGBT men. Gates said he was struck by the geographical spread of the LGBT population — pegged at 3.7 percent in the East, 3.6 percent in the West, 3.4 percent in the Midwest and 3.2 percent in the South.
The results were based on responses to the question, "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?" included in 121,290 Gallup interviews conducted between June 1 and Sept. 30.
The overall 3.4 percent figure is similar to a 3.8 percent estimate made previously by Gates after averaging a group of smaller U.S. surveys conducted from 2004 to 2008.
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