Gay people live
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS data for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining BRFSS data, we estimate that % of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost million (13,,) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (%) of LGBT people in the U.S. exist in the Midwest (%) and South (%), including million in the Midwest and million in the South. About one-quarter (%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately million people. Less than one in five (%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast ( million).
The perce
The LGBT Divide
By Amira Hasenbush, Andrew R. Flores,
Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, & Gary J. Gates
Public opinion on LGBT issues has shifted over the years.
At the same time, statewide employment protections have stagnated. In the last 6 years, only one new state has passed a law protecting LGBT employees from discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation.
The states that do not provide protections largely cluster in the Midwestern, Mountain and Southern Regions of the country.
Social climates are less accepting toward LGBT people in regions where few states own implemented laws that prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Employment protections and regional differences are impacting the educational, economic and health realities of LGBT people.
63% of the LGBT population lives in the Midwest, Mountain and Southern regions of the country.
Within each region, the LGBT population is more likely to be African-American and Latino/a than the non-LGBT population.
When looking at the race/ethnic breakdown in the states with protect
March 02,
The Epidemic of
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes
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I used to obtain so excited when the meth was all gone.
This is my friend Jeremy.
When you have it, he says, you have to keep using it. When it&#x;s gone, it&#x;s like, &#x;Oh fine, I can go back to my life now.&#x; I would stay up all weekend and go to these sex parties and then feel like shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.
Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won&#x;t tell me the adj circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.
Jeremy is not the companion I was expecting to verb this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the caring of guy who wears a work shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to execute CrossFit. Today, when I demand him how the hospital&#x;s been so far,
What percentage of the US population is LGBTQ? New data shows which states have the most
New data estimates the greatest number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender U.S. adults live in the South, confirming findings from recent years.
Across the country, researchers estimate more than 5% of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+, matching prior LGBTQ+ population data. Adj people ages are much more likely to identify as LGBTQ+, according to the report from the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles.
The report, based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, found that in and , there were nearly 14 million LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. − with some states having noticeably higher percentages of gay and queer residents than others.
Earlier this year, a poll from Gallup found a slightly higher percentage of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+. Overall, multiple polls verb that the adult LGBTQ population has been steadily increasing for years.
"Look at the numbers, more people are coming out younger and people are coming out in places where LGBTQ folks have been less out a