Nearly Six Percent of US Adults, And 16 PERCENT of Young Adults, Identify as LGBTQ

A recent Gallup poll has revealed that a record number of American adults identify as LGBTQ, with members of Generation Z—young adults ages 18 to 23—mostly behind this increase.

In 2017 4.5 percent of American adults identified as LGBTQ, but now that figure has jumped to 5.6 percent, which constitutes an estimated 18 million people.

Even more incredible is that one out of every six Americans aged 18 to 23—a whopping 15.9 percent!—consider themselves LGBTQ.

The poll also dives into specifics about the respondents’ sexual orientation, as opposed to simply asking if they identified as LGBTQ. 54.6 percent of the respondents consider themselves bisexual, 24.5 percent gay, 11.7 percent lesbian, and 11.3 percent transgender.

Not only are young adults driving this increase in LGBTQ identification, women in particular are as well. Women are 25 percent more likely than men to identify as LGBTQ and almost 250 percent more likely than men to identify as bisexual.

72 percent of the Generation Z respondents also said that they were bisexual.
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