Has our nation become a place where one out of every ten people are gay?
That's what the latest Gallup poll suggests. According to it, identification rates of someone falling into one or several of the LGBT columns has skyrocketed significantly in a very short time, making up ten percent of the population. Gallup says that the generation leading this charge is Gen Z, who have higher rates than anyone else, but overall, almost every generation has seen an uptick in identification:
LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans enter adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- identify as LGBTQ+. Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946.
LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people have also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years.
Gallup has observed smaller growth in the percentage of LGBTQ+ identifiers in some older generations over the same time period. This includes a nearly two-point increase among millennials (from 10.3% to 12.0%) and a one-point increase among Generation X (from 3.8% to 4.8%). There has not been meaningful change among baby boomers or the Silent Generation.
It's an odd thing to see the numbers shoot up that high, that quickly, but I'm not entirely sure the Gallup poll wasnt' rigged, or so biased that it might as well be useless. I do think that many more people identify as LGBT.
The key word here is "identify."
Let's look at the facts.
Gen Z was always a generation that was soaked in LGBT propaganda since their youth, and now, the youngest of that generation is finally aging into adulthood, driving the number of those who identify up. So that explains it a little, but it doesn't give the whole picture.
All the generations are presenting a slight uptick, but I'm not sure that many are actually falling into an LGBT mentality, they just say they are because it's currently trendy to do so, especially among the youth. It's in the youth that we can actually see where this false idea that America is gayer than ever lies.
Of all the LGBT letters, the on driving the uptick the most is the "B," which represents bisexuality, or the claim that a person's sexuality swings both ways. A whopping 56 percent of those Gallup interviewed said they were bisexual, with the runner-up being "gay" at 21 percent. That's a huge margin, and it starts to become even more interesting when you realize most of the people identifying as such are women:
The gender gaps are especially pronounced in the younger generations -- 31% of Gen Z women versus 12% of Gen Z men, and 18% of millennial women versus 9% of millennial men, identify as LGBTQ+, with most of these younger women saying they are bisexual.
Some of you already know where this is going.
Many of those identifying as LGBT, especially bisexual, aren't at all. They're straight, but in this age it's not about sexual orientation, it's about social optics. A common trope among the young — especially young women — is to identify as bisexual because it makes you look more interesting and progressive. Many of these people may claim they're bisexual, then never touch their same gender, or at least never go further than making out. Ultimately, they end up doing exactly what nature intended, and settle down with someone of the opposite gender.
This trope has been around so long that we already have the data for that, too. According to a 2024 MIDUS study by Lisa Diamond, 81 percent of bisexual women find themselves in opposite-sex relationships. This suggests that most women who identify as bisexual aren't actually bisexual, it's just fun to say they are when they're young.
In today's day and age, it's trendy to continue claiming that, even when you're married to the opposite gender. Ultimately, it's a performative claim meant to boost your social score among the masses. You can see this is also more accurate when you consider Gallup points out that this is primarily happening in left-leaning individuals in urban environments:
Even stronger differences are seen by ideology, with 21% of liberals, compared with 8% of moderates and 3% of conservatives, saying they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
It's also worth noting that a lot of the people in the Gallup poll self-identify, which means they don't have to provide any proof. They can just claim they are.
So, is America more LGBT? Not likely, or at least, not in a significantly large way.
