- LKPU26 ( @LKPU26@lemmy.ml ) 37•8 months ago
This is a poor graph. There are nearly 30 Gen Z LGBT people in America?
Is that 30 million? 30%? 30 people asked?
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 17•8 months ago
Percentage seems reasonable
- KISSmyOS ( @KISSmyOS@feddit.de ) 5•8 months ago
Percentage seems way too high. Million seems more fitting.
- SubArcticTundra ( @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ) 8•8 months ago
Wow, not from the US but I can’t imagine every 3rd person I meet my age being queer… Here across the pond it’s like every 10th
Bisexuality is important here.
Half of all queers are bisexual according to that last survey.
I think, this is what really pushed the numbers upwards during the last decades.
So, that young LGBT person on the other side of the road could live in a heterosexual relationship, but being attracted to both genders.
- ToastedPlanet ( @ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•8 months ago
It’s only 30% if you are around people who are from Gen Z exclusively. The overall percentage is lower.
“In its most recent poll, released in February of last year, Gallup found 7.2% of adults in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ, including nearly 20% of those in Gen Z, which that survey defined as those ages 19 to 26.”
The point is to show that newer generations, especially Gen Z, are identifying as LGBTQ+ at a higher rate than previous generations. That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the numbers are lower for past generations because there are more dead and closeted LGBTQ+ people in those generations.
- Microw ( @Microw@lemm.ee ) 9•8 months ago
It’s almost definitely percentage
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 3•8 months ago
Well cuz I remember it was around 5% a while back.
Also to the younger gen being queer is almost like a cool thing, so it might even go down again!
- IWantToFuckSpez ( @IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ) 5•8 months ago
Wasn’t it 5% gay men? There are probably way more bi people
- Transporter Room 3 ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) 5•8 months ago
When I first heard the statistic it was “under 1%” then it changed to just 1%, then at some point it got bumped to 3%, 5, 10, and honestly I just stopped listening at some point.
I’d love to know what the true percentages are, not the “society doesn’t accept me so I will hide for the rest of my life and have a family like I’m supposed to” percentages we have. I actually knew a couple who lived in separate rooms because when they got married, it was so people would stop questioning them. They’re both gay, but neither ever had a long term partner while “married” because their family would find out. That is just heartbreaking. I don’t doubt their love for each other, but it wasn’t a romantic love, and though they made the best with what they had, they deserved better.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 4•8 months ago
It’s incredible, it’s so painful to even just imagine having to live like that. Let alone actually do it.
I saw a good portrayal of that kind of marriage in For all mankind.
Sorry, yeah, it’s percentage.
- veroxii ( @veroxii@aussie.zone ) 18•8 months ago
Shout out to the silent generation making some moves during COVID!
- huginn ( @huginn@feddit.it ) 21•8 months ago
The conservative ones died while the LGBT and other progressives lived.
Can’t fathom why
- outer_spec ( @outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•8 months ago
Our power is growing
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
I wonder where the next new bar will start.
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
Did the silent gen go back into the closet for a little while?
The numbers were slightly, but continuously decreasing in Gallup surveys, but a lot higher in the 2023 survey of a different institute.