Being old, I recall in the 1990s the number of Americans identifying as homosexual or bisexual was published as either 7% or 8% of the population. I was involved in the arts, where our group estimate was, with a lot of people were still closetted, the real percentage would be closer to 12% to 15%. Reading this and considering the way the US has gone since then, I think we were probably right, and I'd even go so far as to say perhaps a little low.
1-in-10 has been the stat for decades.
Right? I remember a couple decades ago when things just started opening up for lgbtq people that scientists studying sexuality gave estimates that 1:10 people were likely not going to fit the hetero “norm”.
Looks like they nailed it.
Hell yeah dude, bisexuals doing our part to get those numbers up.
As a bisexual you're welcome I guess
Thank you for your service 🫡
We're doing our part!
Both your parts.
Are we still considered "greedy" by both straight and gay people?
I swear, not all of us are sluts. I am, but not all of us.
Oh I'm.sure there are plenty of us. Still hiding. Sadly
And how many americans now identify as nazis? Asking for the entire world...
~10% of Americans are LGBTQ+. ~22.6% of the US population voted for Trump in the most recent election.
Is voting participation that low?!
Well, you gotta consider everyone under 17yo can't vote, and then, there's all the people in prison and all the other disenfranchised citizens who have had their voting rights stripped by conservatives.
that figure must be of the overall population.
63.7% overall voter turnout nationwide in 2024.
five states with the highest turnout were:
Minnesota (76.4%), Wisconsin (76.40%), Michigan (74.7%), New Hampshire (74.4%), and Colorado (73.1%).
2020 was the highest nationwide at 66.6%.
more numbers at ballotpedia
And tens of millions of americans just didn't care enough to vote. That was basically saying they are fine with a pedo-rapist who previously attack the captitol win the election. Nazi-enablers.
Or maybe they didn't want to vote for someone they didn't like.
Meaning they were fine with any of both candidate winning...
Meaning they were not fine with either winning.
I would like to ask, what is the point of voting according to you?
At the very least it's harm reduction.
Harris wouldn't be trying to dismantle the government right now if she had won.
Harm reduction is great, but if I do not see a candidate that represents me I am not going to vote.
Why would I support someone that is fucking me over?
If I had the final say in who gets to be president I might have picked Harris, but honestly, your vote is not going to change the outcome of the election, so why compromise your morality?
So you won't vote until you find a candidate that perfectly incarnates what you want? You realize that might be quite hard to reach? I could maybe understand in certain situations, but when the choice is between any random shitty politician and the fucking antichrist, best friend of one of most notorious pedophile ever, that explicitly stated he wants to be dictator and destroy democracy, I think you might want to consider making an exception. But I guess you wont have that problem anymore since the chances you get ever asked to vote again are really small IMO.
I mean the bar is not high. But Harris was literally throwing the election, her campaign was based entirely on not being Trump and she didn't offer anything substantial to the american people. Trump won for a reason. And you didn't vote for Harris either, you voted against Trump.
The chances I will be asked to vote in the american elections are, indeed, small, but not for the reason you think. I referred to americans that did not vote as "they" for a reason.
I didn't vote for Harris because I'm Canadian, you know the country that yout dictator wants to annex?
I might have heard of it. But again, I am NOT american. Haven't I made that clear?
Well we know you would have let pedo win if you were.
What a bunch of self serving bullshit. You and everyone else who decided to sit on their ass instead of voting for the better but but perfect candidate are responsible for everything Trump is doing right now.
Not voting isn't going to somehow get you better choices. It's not like we get a do-over if everyone stays home.
I am not responsible for what Trump is doing. But you, if you voted for Biden, are responsible for the genocide in Gaza. And you would have been responsible for what happened under Harris, and let's be honest, it wouldn't be much different.
This is just bullshit... And one of the reasons why the barely functioning democracy is on the best way to an autocratic fascist oligarchy.
There's two candidates to vote for. One is bad for the Palestinians, one is much worse for them. If I don't vote, the one that is much worse gets a higher chance of winning...
Democracy especially if you only have 2 choices is about making compromises.
Apparently a lot of people wasted (likely) all their future choices for an absolute *** (there's two many words that are fitting). That Trump still has such a high approval just confirms to me that we as Europeans should just cut ties with them.
I am not going to vote
I might have picked Harris
lol
That's some poor logic
Are GenZ now LGBTQ? LGBTQZ!
Tune in next month for the new letter!
1 in 10? Those are rookie numbers! We gotta pump those numbers up!
I just saw someone right here on Lemmy in another thread conflating sexuality with sex.
It astounds me that in 2025 people don't understand that sexuality is about attraction. You can be a virgin. You can be asexual and still attracted to people of your own gender. You can be gay or bi or whatever regardless of how much or how little sex you've ever had.
Because a lot of the traditional hetero relationships that Christians have are only different from their other relationships because of the sex. They don't get an emotional and spiritual connection in their relationship, and protect on to others that it's the same.
Is "Thanks Bisexuals" the new "Thanks Obama"? I hope so.
I could have sworn I read somewhere that it's likely 10% anyway, like 20 years ago. That was the scientific estimate of the time, although I don't though it included the same definition.
That was an estimate. Around that time only about 2-4% identified as gay but it was estimated the real number was higher because homophobia kept most people in the closet.
Thanks for saying this. There's literally a gay sex shop called One in Ten in my city, for this reason, that's been around forever.
There was a radio show in Boston for the gay and lesbian community 30 years ago called 1 in 10.
i vaguely remember a health teacher in jr or sr high saying something like that (this would be back in the '80s).. "about 10 percent, that's the same as at least three of your classmates.." (in that class)....
and then the students kinda all looked around, eyeballin' everybody.. as if they were counting.. yup. checks out. one of them blurted out "that's kinda low, don'cha think?" --this bit is why i remember the class. and she was right. it was low.
I agree. It's really hard to count since so many people love in denial. Bisexual is particularly hard to count, and there's plenty of women who fancy the idea given just how awful men are sometimes.
Edit but not really, but I like "love in denial". Happy typo I'm keeping.
I’m doing my part!
Who could have guessed a significant portion of the population wouldn't magically find their attraction to people exclusively split along a very specific line of biological and social characteristics in over 99% of cases? What a shocking revelation that maybe a lot of people just like who they like regardless of gender or sex.
Personally, I expect to see this number of people outwardly identifying as bi significantly rise as time goes on.
Feel like the wording of this headline implies that all Gen Z is LGBTQ+
Not saying that would be a bad thing to be clear
No, but I remember seeing another recent poll about a year ago where the results were that about 20% of GenZ identify as LGBTQ.
This would imply that 10% is the acceptance rate (which has gone up "thanks to GenZ's contribution") and the actual rate is higher than this, but that part is missing from the information.
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