• Some 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT: study ...

    2019/03/05 · An estimated 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and they tend to be younger and poorer than the population at large, according to an analysis of polling ...

  • Just How Many LGBT Americans Are There? - The Daily …

    2018/11/16 · That includes a record-high 7.3 percent of people born between 1980 and 1998 who now identify as LGBT—up from 5.8 percent in 2012. (This new data reinforces a 2015 conclusion from the Public ...

  • LGBT demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

    The demographics of sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States have been studied in the social sciences in recent decades. A 2017 Gallup poll concluded that 4.5% of adult Americans identified as LGBT with 5.1% of women identifying as LGBT, compared with 3.9% of men.[1] A different survey in 2016, from the Williams Institute ...

  • Gallup.com - Americans Still Greatly Overestimate U.S. …

    2020/04/13 · Americans' estimate of the proportion of gay people in the U.S. is more than five times Gallup's more encompassing 2017 estimate that 4.5% of Americans are LGBT, based on respondents' self-identification as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. ...

  • A record 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT, …

    2018/05/25 · A record 4.5 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new Gallup estimate.The percentage, which works out to more than 11 million U.S. adults ...

  • • Chart: Europe's LGBT population mapped | Statista

    2016/10/28 · Toronto LGBT Film Festival movie premiere screenings 2018-2019 Mexico: time LGBT+ people spent online 2019 Number of LGBT characters in top-grossing films in the U.S. 2014-2018

  • 5 ways the LGBTQ community has progressed in the …

    2019/06/17 · Luckily, the numbers are very promising, according to the 2019 Corporate Equality Index, a wide-reaching study of LGBTQ employees from Human Rights Campaign. In fact, 93 percent of Fortune 500 ...

  • In U.S., Estimate of LGBT Population Rises to 4.5% - …

    2020/05/01 · The percentage of American adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender increased to 4.5% in 2017 from 4.1% in 2016 and 3.5% in 2012.

  • Advocating for LGBTQ Equality | Human Rights …

    2016/06/22 · Growing Up LGBT in America HRC’s report, Growing Up LGBT in America, is a groundbreaking survey of more than 10,000 LGBT-identified youth ages 13-17. It provides a stark picture of the difficulties they face — the

  • USA TODAY - Nearly 4 million LGBTQ people live in rural ...

    2019/04/03 · Pop culture often paints LGBTQ people living in rural areas as outsiders eager to bolt for more dazzling and diverse hubs such as New York or San Francisco. A report out Wednesday upends that ...

  • People in Utah support LGBTQ rights more than New …

    2019/07/25 · In April 2019, Utah updated its hate crimes law to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and in 2017, the state repealed its “No Promo Homo” law forbidding positive mentions of ...

  • National LGBT Survey: Summary report - GOV.UK

    2018/09/27 · The proportion was higher for younger people (e.g. 4.1% of 16-24 year olds) than older people (e.g. 2.9% of 25 to 34 year olds and 0.7% of those aged 65 and over). 7 These figures are about sexual ...

  • Study Finds 24 Percent of Southern LGBTQ People Live …

    2019/12/13 · Nearly a quarter of LGBTQ people in the South live in poverty. A new study found that in every Southern state except Florida, individuals identifying as LGBTQ are more likely to be poor than ...

  • AT THE INTERSECTIONS - True Colors United

    parent or guardian over the course of a year. 3 We’ve also learned that LGBTQ young people are 2.2% more likely to experience homelessness compared to their straight and cisgender peers. 4 1 Morton, M. H., Samuels, G. M

  • Why Are Murders Of Gay And Bi Men Up A Staggering …

    2018/02/12 · What may be different since 2017 is that these men ― and the vast majority of hate-motivated killings of queer people are committed by cisgender men ― now feel more empowered to act out. A GLAAD annual survey published in recent weeks found, for the first time in four years, a ”swift and alarming drop” in acceptance of LGBTQ people …

  • NATIONAL SURVEY ON LGBTQ YOUTH MENTAL …

    National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health. This is our first wide-ranging report from a cross-sectional national survey of LGBTQ youth across the United States. With over 34,000 respondents, it is the largest survey of far we ...

  • Study: LGBTQ Folks 4.5 Percent of US Population – Gay ...

    2019/03/06 · Adults who identify as LGBTQ represent 4.5 percent of the US population, according to a wide-ranging study that captured statistics on factors including gender, race, employment, income, and food insecurity. The study, published by UCLA’s Williams Institute — which focuses on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy — …

  • LGBTQ+ People of Color More Likely to Live In Poverty …

    2019/10/30 · For example, 30.8 percent of queer Black people are living in poverty, compared to 25.3 percent of Black people outside the community. It also found that LGBTQ + people who suffer from economic insecurity are more likely to be young people of color who identify as bisexual or transgender and are experiencing a disability.

  • What percentage of people are LGBTQ+? - Quora

    2016/06/26 · Here are some stats from a recent survey, together with some context from other surveys. > The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and

  • Gay Population Statistics in the United States

    2017/07/14 · If you mean people who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual in a survey, then the answer is that it's likely not one in ten, but closer to one in twenty. A recent government survey found that 4 percent of adults aged 18-45 identified

  • How Many LGBT People Are Raising Kids? A New Study ...

    2019/11/07 · A new analysis gives us the most recent estimate of how many LGBT parents are raising children in the U.S., and which states have the highest percentage of LGBT people doing so. The “Adult LGBT Population in the United States” study, by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, looked at data from the Gallup Daily …

  • Americans are underestimating discrimination against ...

    2019/06/24 · Americans are underestimating discrimination against LGBTQ people Many Americans think there has been a lot of progress on LGBTQ rights. But there is a long way to go. Casey Quinlan Twitter Jun 24 ...

  • LGBTQ - Children's Rights

    THE ISSUE Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people are over-represented in foster care, where they are more likely to experience discrimination, abuse, neglect and the risk of harm. A 2019 study found 30.4 percent of youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ and 5 percent as transgender, compared to 11.2 percent and 1.17 percent …

  • These Are the Trans People Killed in 2019

    2019/12/21 · Through mid-December of 2019, 21 murders of trans Americans have been reported, all but one being women of color. Initial reports indicated that Ja'leyah-Jamar Berryman, killed in September in ...

  • Fewer Americans Think LGBT People Face Discrimination ...

    2019/03/21 · Only 55 percent of Americans believe that gay and lesbian people face a lot of discrimination in the U.S., down from 68 percent in 2013. Among young adults, historically some of the strongest ...

  • ZS Earns 100 Percent on Human Rights Campaign …

    EVANSTON, Il.—Mar. 28, 2019—Upon achieving 100 percent on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), global professional services firm ZS earns the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality. The CEI is the Human ...

  • Human Rights Campaign - Sexual Assault and the LGBTQ ...

    2015/04/10 · 40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual violence other than rape, compared to 21 percent of straight men Within the LGBTQ community, transgender people and bisexual women face the most alarming rates of sexual violence.

  • COVID-19 Is Seriously Affecting LGBTQ Americans. …

    2020/04/01 · When broken down by race, Black (23 percent)and Latinx (24 percent) LGBTQ adults are most likely to have avoided doctor vists, as well as 29 percent of transgender women. -While three percent of Americans are affected by kidney disease, the average for LGBTQ Americans is seven percent.

  • Movement Advancement Project | LGBT Populations

    Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws *Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.

  • Fewer Americans Oppose Religious-based Refusal of …

    2020/04/14 · Meanwhile, 37 percent of Americans support such denials of service to LGBTQ people. Although a majority of Americans have opposed religious-based refusal of services for some time, the strength of that opposition — based on previous iterations of the survey — has fluctuated in the last five years.

  • USA TODAY - LGBTQ millennials: 63% are considering ...

    2019/02/07 · The methods have also changed: 63 percent of LGBTQ people planning families expect to use reproductive technology, foster care or adoption services – a shift from older generations who relied on ...

  • Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage | Pew …

    2019/05/14 · Among people who are religiously unaffiliated, a solid majority have supported same-sex marriage since 2004. Today, 79% of religious “nones” say same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. About two-thirds of white mainline

  • More voters identify as LGBT — and they back Democrats

    2018/11/15 · In 2016, 76 percent of LGBT-identified voters supported Hillary Clinton, but 14 percent voted for President Trump. In 2012, 77 percent of LGB-identified people voted for President Obama, while 23 ...

  • 5 facts about same-sex marriage | Pew Research Center

    2019/06/24 · About six-in-ten Americans (61%) support same-sex marriage in the most recent Pew Research Center survey on the issue, conducted in March 2019. 2 Although support in the U.S. for same-sex marriage has increased among nearly all demographic groups, there are still sizable demographic and partisan divides.

  • Overview of Findings (2019) | GLAAD

    2019/05/23 · Of the 110 films GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2018, 20 (18.2 percent) contained characters identified as LGBTQ. This is a significant increase of 5.4 percent, and up six films from the previous year’s 12.8 percent (14 of 109 films). This is the second highest percentage of inclusive films found in the seven-year history of this report, second to 18.4 percent …

  • GLAAD: Millennials Grow 'Uncomfortable' With LGBTQ ...

    2019/06/25 · (The group GLAAD terms “resisters,” meanwhile — people who report being consistently uncomfortable with LGBTQ people — has remained consistent at between 13-14 percent across all five ...

  • Daily Mail Online - LGBTQ+ Americans make up 4.5% of …

    2019/03/08 · White people were the least likely to identify as LGBTQ+, with 3.9 percent of all white people identifying that way. Asians were next (4.4 percent), followed by African Americans (4.6 percent) and ...

  • LGBTQ media in the U.S. - Statistics & Facts | Statista

    2019/09/04 · Representation of LGBTQ people in superhero movies U.S. 2019, by age group Top LGBTQ YouTube influencers 2017, by number of subscribers Top LGBTQ blogs on Twitter 2018, by number of followers

  • Anti-LGBTQ hate groups surged by 43% in 2019, …

    2020/03/30 · The report noted that anti-LGBTQ hate groups represented the “fastest-growing sector” of hate groups last year. White nationalists groups have also been on the rise, increasing 55 percent from 100 in 2017 to 155 in 2019.

  • 5 key findings about LGBT Americans | Pew Research …

    2017/06/13 · About 10 million people, or 4.1% of the U.S. adult population, identified as LGBT in 2016, according to the latest estimates from Gallup. This represents a modest but significant increase from 8.3 million people (3.5% of adults) who

  • Anti-LGBTQ hate groups surged by 43% in 2019, …

    2020/03/30 · March 30 (UPI) --The number of anti-LGBTQ hate groups in the United States increased by 43 percent last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.The hate groups grew from 49 in 2018 to 70 in ...

  • NPR.org - New Study Finds Over 3 Million LGBT People …

    2019/04/04 · New Study Finds Over 3 Million LGBT People Live In Rural America Up to 20 percent of LGBT Americans live in rural parts of the country. A new study says they shouldn't have to choose between being ...

  • GLAAD Calls for 20 Percent of TV Characters to Be LGBTQ ...

    2019/11/19 · T he Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (glaad) released its annual “Where We Are on TV” report on November 7, calling for “20 percent of series regular characters on primetime scripted broadcast series” to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (lgbtq) by 2025.) by 2025.

  • LGBTQ People and COVID-19 | Center for LGBT …

    Many LGBTQ people work in the most affected jobs Jobs that are heavily impacted right now by COVID-19 related issues - restaurants, retail, hospitals, education - make up 40 percent of the positions in which all LGBTQ people ...

  • Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of …

    However, LGBTQ racial/ethnic minorities had a higher prevalence than whites of reporting race‐based microaggressions (38 percent vs 6 percent, P < .01), slurs (53 percent vs 14 percent, P < .01), and racial fear (23 percent vs 6P

  • Fewer Americans Oppose Religious-Based Refusal of …

    2020/04/14 · Meanwhile, 37 percent of Americans support such denials of service to LGBTQ people. Although a majority of Americans have opposed religious-based refusal of services for some time, the strength of that opposition — based on previous iterations of the survey — has fluctuated in the last five years.

  • LGBTQ Judges in the Federal Judiciary

    • Those who self-identify as LGBTQ comprise fewer than 1 percent of sitting judges and only about 1.4 percent of active judges on the federal bench. 3 To put this in perspective, people who self-identify as LGBTQ make up approximately 4.5 percent

  • A majority of evangelicals now support laws protecting ...

    2019/03/16 · A majority of evangelicals now support laws protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination Surprisingly, Christian majorities oppose anti-LGBTQ discrimination. By Nico Lang Saturday, March 16, 2019

  • LGBTQ youth are at greater risk of homelessness and ...

    2019/01/22 · LGBTQ youth of color — particularly Black youth — are at an increased risk of criminalization. This, in part, reflects the fact that LGBTQ youth of color have disproportionately high rates of homelessness. A 2014 survey of human service providers serving homeless youth, for instance, reported that 31% of the LGBTQ youth they …

  • GLAAD Survey: Young Americans less accepting of LGBTQ ...

    2020/03/09 · Overall, about 80 percent of Americans support equal rights for LGBTQ people. A new survey from GLAAD suggests that young, non-LGBT Americans are now less comfortable around LGBT people compared ...