13th annual lgbtq community survey usa report
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to flourish, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual , queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated data from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.
Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of Diverse adults say they are bisexual. Gay and queer woman are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT
5 key findings about Queer Americans
Pew Research Center has been tracking Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage, gender identity and other Diverse issues for more than a decade. In that time, we have also done deep explorations of the experiences of LGBT and transgender and nonbinary Americans.
As the United States celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride month, here are five key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans from our recent surveys:
Some 7% of Americans are lesbian, gay or pansexual, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 12,147 U.S. adults conducted in summer 2022. Some 17% of adults younger than 30 identify as lesbian, gay or pansexual, compared with 8% of those ages 30 to 49, 5% of those 50 to 64 and 2% of those 65 and older. Similar shares of men and women identify with any of these terms, as undertake similar shares of adults across racial and ethnic groups.
How we did this
Pew Research Center sought to provide an overview of findings on LGBTQ+ Americans. The overview is based on data from Center surveys and analyses conducted from 2019 to 2022, including a 2019 study of 2017 survey information from Stanford University. Links to the methodology and questions used can be
Community Marketing & Insights (CMI’s) 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey®
CMI’s 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey®
Report is Now Released
San Francisco, CA – Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) has released its 13th Annual LGBTQ People Survey® report.
Over 32,000 respondents from the LGBTQ (lesbian, queer, bisexual, transgender and queer) communities in 130 countries participated in CMI’s 13th annual survey. 200+ LGBTQ media, events and organizations worldwide partnered with CMI in this year’s study, helping to present diverse, characteristic data from across the community. This survey was fielded in English, Spanish, French and Hungarian languages.
At the matching time, Community Marketing & Insights is proud to offer our website, organized to help you locate this and other research reports on a variety of LGBTQ topics and issues for free download, as adv info about our conferences and corporate training. Visit www.communitymarketinginc.com.
A sample of 2019 key findings of 11,639 LGBTQs living in the United States:
- Relationship Status: The survey last explored this question in 2017, and over the past two years we look little change in t
LGBTQ Community Survey results, and free webinar
Happy Pride Month
Announcing CMI’s 14th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey®
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San Francisco, CA – Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) has released its 14th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey® report.
Over 34,000 respondents from the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender and queer) communities in 130 countries participated in CMI’s 14th annual survey. 150 LGBTQ media, events and organizations worldwide partnered with CMI in this year’s study, helping to present diverse, representative facts from across the community. This survey was fielded in English, Spanish, French and Hungarian languages.
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Community Marketing & Insights is proud to invite MMR members to participate in CMI’s 13th Annual LGBTQ Marketing & Advertising Symposium @ Google NYC on November 19th. Attendance is free, but limited. Please send your demand to tom@CM
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 2020-2021 information for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of numbers provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost 13.9 million (13,942,200) 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 (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults reside in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT