Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesPeople participate in the New York City Pride Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York on June 26, 2022.The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the last 12 years, according to7.6% of U.S. adults now align themselves with the LGBTQ+ community — up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup started collecting this data. Compare that to four years ago, when the figure was 5.6%.
"Increases in LGBTQ+ identification in recent years have occurred as members of Generation Z and the millennial generation have entered adulthood," according to the study. "Adults in these younger generations are far more likely than those in older generations to identify as LGBTQ+."twice as likely as the previous generation to identify as LGBTQ+, and more than one in five Gen Z adults — age 18 to 23 during the data collection period — identify as LGBTQ+.
Gallup collected its 2023 data through telephone surveys with more than 12,000 Americans 18 or older.85.6% said they were straight, 7.6% identified with one or more identifiers within the LGBTQ+ community, and 6.8% of those surveyed declined to respond, Gallup said. The data found that bisexual adults made up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ community, with 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults reporting that they are bisexual.
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