how much is the population of the Gay,Lesbian&Bisexuals?plz give me real statics,not what u just guess!?

Answer 1

If you consult "Discordance between Sexual Behavior and Self-Reported Sexual Identity: A Population-Based Survey of New York City Men" by Preeti Pathela, DrPH; Anjum Hajat, MPH; Julia Schillinger, MD; Susan Blank, MD; Randall Sell, ScD; and Farzad Mostashari, MD in "The Annals of Internal Medicine," 19 September 2006 | Volume 145 Issue 6 | Pages 416-425 you will find that with a highly statistically significant sample (statistically significant is considered any sample over 1500 - this sample was over 4000) the number of men that prefer sex with other men exclusively is well over 12%, which supports the numbers from Kinsey's study all those years ago, precisely.

So, I will continue to go with the 12 to 13% male homosexual figure and the lower (6-7%) female homosexual figure -- resulting in an aggregate of about 10% -- as Kinsey originally wrote.

ON THE OTHER HAND -- that is for homosexuals, not for gays and lesbians. That is the beauty of the particular study - it looked at both self-identification and actual activity. So. 12.7% of males (if memory serves for the after the decimal number) prefer homosexual activity to heterosexual activity and engage in homosexual activity -- BUT only around 4% of males identify when asked as gay or homosexual. The others, over 8% of the total male population, despite their professed activity -- and their professed preference for that activity; when asked simply if they are gay or straight -- homosexual or heterosexual -- identify as STRAIGHT.

My conclusion, only about a third of the total HOMOSEXUALS in the country see their activity as being connected to labels and thus identify as being gay. So if you are looking for how many people are homosexual, I stand by the 10% overall figure. If you are looking for how many identify as gay -- or admit publicly to being homosexual, I believe the figure is much lower -- in the 3 to 4% range, and both figures are, as I have shown, supported by empirical research.

I hope that is helpful.

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PS Some people will argue that the study I quote is skewed because, they will say, homosexuals tend to move to large cities and their immediate surrounds and the study occurred in a large city. My response to that is that, even if true -- which I question, just about 3/4ths of the American populace lives in large cities and their immediate surrounds -- so I am not impressed by the argument, for obvious reasons -- it makes little difference to overall numbers when you take population patterns into account.

Answer 2

Nobody knows for sure because there is no way to count.

For every gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered person who is willing to come out and be counted in a survey, poll or census, there are many more who, for one reason or another, are not willing to reveal themselves.

Until society changes to the point where every GLBT person feels safe to come out without fear of condemnation or ostracism by family and friends, gay-bashing (physical or verbal), loss of job or housing, etc., we will probably never know for certain how many GLBT people there really are -- in the U.S., or on the planet.

The often-quoted statistic that 10% of the population is GLBT is only an educated guess based on the work of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. There is no way to know if its correct.

Answer 3

Is it in the World, Yahoo! Answers,or a specific place or something ?...However it seems impossible to get without a guess, because of few reasons to me.
1.Most People are easily afraid to admit being gay than straight.(but they are gay)
2. Suprisingly, not everyone who answers or asks on this section is GLBT .possible some are pretending but real homophobe.So if we conduct a survey, in the end we might find a futile.

Answer 4

the last US census counted self identified same sex partners living together. that would be a good start but its only a fraction of the real number which is said to be about 7 or 8 percent of the total adult population and if you count the married guys that like to have sex with other men, its probably closer to 15 percent.

Answer 5

Ten percent is considered correct. Therefore if there are 6 billion people in the world, there are 600 million members of the LGBT community. And that's more people that most countries have populations.

Answer 6

1 1/2 %, "tickle busters" independent poll. Taken in San francisco Laguna Beach and Los Angeles California.

Answer 7

At one point I heard that it was 15%... but then needing to take in to consideration all those who are not out yet (or who are serving in the military and 'can't' come out, so the number may actually be higher (18-20%)

Answer 8

No one knows for sure because it's a private matter. The estimates range any where from 1% - 18% from who you ask.

Answer 9

According to the latest US census, and several other sources, about one percent of couples are same sex. This remains rather consistent across surveys.

According to both the US census and , about 1.4% of females and 2.8% of males in the United States identify as gay. This gives us a starting point. It is safe to assume that homosexual identity is underreported for a variety of reasons. If we use a conservative estimate of one third underreported, this gives us about 2% for women and 4% for men. If we assume that there is 50% underreporting, this gives us 2.8% of women and 5.6% of men.

Using the base as a minimum, and a generous range for the upper limit, we get something like 1.4-2.8% of women and 2.8%-5.6% of men, with the guys consistently being about twice as prevalent as the women.

Or in simpler terms, probably about 2% of women are lesbian, and about 4% of men.

For transsexuals, according to Lynn Conway, about one in 2000-2500 genetic males in the US is a post-op female. If we assume that about the same number of transgender women are pre or non-op, that gives us a nice, simple 0.1% of genetic males is a male to female transsexual. Females tend to be transsexual at about one third the rate as males, so this gives us about 0.03% of females as transsexual.

Summary:

same sex couples: 1%
gay males: 3-5%
lesbians: 1.4-3%
MTF: 0.1%
FTM: 0.03%

Answer 10

60,975,000 acoording to national statistics of 2007. so just a bit more than that x