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First large scale survey on orientation by the government. Another 0.7% identify as bisexual
FTA:The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves bisexual.
The figures offered a slightly smaller assessment of the size of the gay, lesbian and bisexual population than other surveys
The overwhelming majority of adults, 96.6 percent, labeled themselves as straight in the 2013 survey.
That 10% figure thrown around since Kinsey studies in the 1940s is pretty much bogus.
The question is, were there only two options? Because there is a huge grey area. If you have to pick one of two options, the margins aren't surprising at all. Especially with my generation, it's becoming a lot more blurred.
The question is, were there only two options? Because there is a huge grey area. If you have to pick one of two options, the margins aren't surprising at all. Especially with my generation, it's becoming a lot more blurred.
What other options? Necrophiliacs? Bestiality? Maybe they were the other 1.1% "unidentified" or refused to answer.
There was one employee at Pensacola Naval Air Station who passed away from AIDS. The management told all the employees in the building that AIDS was not contagious and that they had nothing to fear. A medical team was sent to retrieve the deceased's tools and personal property. The medical team wore coveralls, masks, and gloves. Rocket science?
I wonder what infectious disease REALLY triggered that response? Guess management figured nobody was smart enough to question a biohazard team responding to what they claimed was a deceased AIDS patient, and they were right.
I think it's WAY higher than this, especially if you consider the closeted/occasional people.
I'd say a minimum of 10% of the people I know are gay or bisexual, and those are the ones who are openly gay. I am not making a special effort to associate with gays over straights.
When you take into account the people who "did it one time and liked it," those who are outright closeted, and those who are primarily straight, but will occasionally have a same sex relationship, I'd say you're looking at 10%.
That figure is close to the 2 per-cent that it's always been estimated to be.
People often think the number is higher, given Americans' obsession with pop culture. Gays, not surprisingly, are attracted to the arts, so their numbers in that field, coupled with obligatory gay characters in most TV shows, help to up that perception, too.
Forget Hollyweird; it is in no way representative of America.
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