The percentage of adults with non-traditional sexual identities has more than doubled since 2012<\/p>\n
Over 28% of women in the youngest US adult cohort identify as LGBTQ, most of them as bisexual, according to a Gallup annual\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The polling agency began asking Americans about their sexual identity in 2012. In that time, the number of adults who identify as something other than heterosexual has gone from 3.5% to 7.6%.<\/p>\n \u201cOverall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to identify as LGBTQ, the pollster said.<\/p>\n More than one in five Americans in Generation Z (born between 1997-2012) identify as LGBTQ, up from almost one in ten millennials (1981-1996).<\/p>\n In the 2024 survey, 28.5% of Gen-Z women checked one of the LGBT identity boxes, mainly \u2018bisexual\u2019 (20.7%), with lesbians accounting for 5.4% and transgenders for 2.1%. Among men of the same generation, 10.6% identified with the rainbow flag, with bisexuals (6.9%) outnumbering the gays (2.8%).<\/p>\n By comparison, only 5.4% of millennial men and 12.4% of women identified as LGBTQ, the survey said. Older Americans were more likely to identify as gay or lesbian than bisexual or trans.<\/p>\n Overall, gays and lesbians represent slightly over 1% of US adults, compared to bisexuals at 4.4%. Bisexual is the dominant identity in the LGBT camp, with 57.3%. Gallup did note that there was some overlap between identities, as the survey allowed for multiple categories.<\/p>\n The results were based on a telephone survey of more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and over. While 7.6% said they identified as one or more LGBTQ groups, 85.6% said they were heterosexual and 6.8% declined to answer.<\/p>\n The current US government has\u00a0gone all-in<\/a>\u00a0on supporting alternative sexual identities, both at home and abroad. By contrast, Russia has banned LGBTQ\u00a0\u201cpropaganda\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and targeting of minors. However, as President Vladimir Putin\u00a0recently pointed out<\/a>, Russia is\u00a0\u201cquite tolerant towards people with non-traditional sexual orientations,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0believing in a\u00a0\u201clive and let live\u201d<\/em>\u00a0approach so long as people don\u2019t flaunt it \u2013 and leave the children alone.<\/p>\n Read more at: rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The percentage of adults with non-traditional sexual identities has more than doubled since 2012 Over 28% of women in the youngest US adult cohort identify as LGBTQ, most of them as bisexual, according to a Gallup annual\u00a0survey\u00a0published on Wednesday. The polling agency began asking Americans about their sexual identity in 2012. 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