What is the percentage for gay man in USA?

Question

According to the survey and statistic, pls refer the data from the site to me.

Answer 1

There is no way of knowing with certainty. To determine the exact percentage of gay men, you would have to rely on people to state whether they're gay or not. The vast majority of gay people still hide their affectional preference, so there would be no way of knowing.

There is research on the topic, that provides estimates, but I'd still say there's no way of knowing with any degree of certainty.

Answer 2

The Wall Street Journal ran an article about this earlier in 2004. Interestingly, based on numerous surveys since the 1970s, the "10% gay population" number turns out to be an urban legend. That said, even 4% is a large number in a country of nearly 300MM,

The way that "gay" is defined affects the numbers significantly. If
gay = "any sexual encounter w/ the same sex," the numbers are roughly 2-3x higher (8-10%). If gay = "sustained proclivity for and
engagement in sexual encounters with the same sex," then gay hovers b/w 2-4%. The most recent and thorough studies were done in the early nineties. They found that the percent gay (U.S.) was between 1-4%. The following charts some of the most prominent studies since 1970. .

Kinsey-NORC 1970 – 8.2% M, 4.3% F after age 15
Bell/Weinberg 1970 – < 2% total M and F (ratings of siblings)
Cameron/Ross 1975-78 – 3.1% M, 3.9% F
FRI 1983 – 5.4% M, 3.6% F (4,340 respondents)
FRI-Dallas 1984 – 10.7% M, 7.4% F after age 12
MacDonald 1988 – 2% total M and F (> 5,500 college student
respondents, Canada)Trocki 1988-89 – 3% M, 2% F
NCHS 1988-91 – 3.5% M since 1977 (over 50,000 respondents)
RTI-Dallas 1989 – 7.6% M, 2.7% F since 1978
GSS 1989 – < 6.3% M after age 17
GSS 1990 – 4.8% M after age 17
Catania/NABS 1992 – 2% M, 2% F (4% in urban areas; 10,600 respondents)
Billy/Battelle 1993 – 1.1% M
Billy/Guttmacher 1993 – 2.3% M in last 10 years

Answer 3

Surveys are very misleading and are very area specific. IF you take a poll in a large US city, you would find about 15% Gay, add another 30% for those who have had sex with same sex. And the numbers will vary with socio-economic status...the higher, the more truthful the answers.
If you take a survey in a farming community, you will find NO truthful answers, and find a 0% gay population.
In all, there has been very little done in this area, for funding is hard to find. Kinsey probably had the best resources for his survey, but it is flawed in that it only covered men fully, and his predilection for bisexuality may have colored his results, but I doubt it. His figures were roughly 10% Gay, 45% bi....these figures seem to hold up over time. I find it surprising that more women are not gay, but these figures seem to run in at about 4% across the nation. We have no reason to assume that the world's population does not fall in the same guide lines. It would seem that in areas that are tolerant or non-judgemental, the populations of Gays are much larger. But this is colored by the fact that Gays move to these areas. And, it could well be that many men, given a free choice, are openly gay. Any man who says "Straight" is suspect due to social pressure and social teachings. That does not mean that there are no straights, for that is a ridiculous assumption. IF there were no social pressure, I suspect we would still find the 10-15% Gay factor exists, for in reality, we cannot be untrue to our genetic codes for long.
Good luck

Answer 4

I've heard anywhere from 2% - 10%. I think it's impossible to get an accurate statistic. Sexuality is a serious subject for most people and many people may not be completely honest about their sexual desires and behaviors. Another problem is classification. What do we define as "gay" and what do we define as "straight"? Sexuality is not always a black or white thing. There are various shades of gray. I believe in the validity of the "Kinsey scale". But do we classify a 1 or 2 as "gay" or "bisexual"? Is a 4 or 5 "straight" or "bisexual"?

Answer 5

What is the quote about Liars, damned liars and statisticians? I don't remember, but I'm sure it applies here.

Surveys can be written to generate whatever answer you want to get. In politics this is called Push Polling. If the pollster want to get a lot of gay people when they call they phrase the question more broadly....if their goal is to get 1-2% gays they might ask something like, "Knowing that homosexuality is a vile and base lifestyle and condemned by God are you an avowed, activist homosexual and devil worshiper?"

So, how will we ever get an accurate count? I don't have any good ideas. But I don't know why it matters. Whether 83% of society is gayer than Richard Simmons or whether there's just one lonely old queen playing Judy Garland records to his poodle we are still full members of this society and should be granted all the rights that come with that.

Answer 6

I'm doing this from memory, but I *think* the numbers from a recent survey went something like this:

2% homosexual (i.e., openly gay)
4% bisexual (some of whom are actually gay but prefer "bi")
2% other/not sure (whatever that means)
2% don't want to say (we can guess what that means)

So, basically, this is where you get that 10% (or 1 in 10) estimate figure. The 10% refers, not to men who are exclusively gay, but to men who are not exclusively straight. And when you consider the number of so-called "straight" men who are actually gay or bi, the actual percentage is probably significantly higher.

Answer 7

According to this site (which lists it's source in turn) the unofficial percentage of homosexual individuals in the US is 10%. http://adoption.about.com/od/gaylesbian/f/howmany.htm I have heard numbers ranging from 9% up to 12%. Typically they say that roughly one out of every 10 men might possibly be gay.

Answer 8

The question, not being on the census form, means that there is no official figure. Here's an interesting website, exploring gay demographics. Poster #4, seems to have the figures though.

http://www.gaydemographics.org

Answer 9

It's probably higher than we can imagine ! I'm sure there isn't a statistic on the matter that would show a close number.

Answer 10

1-3%