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Number of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has doubled since 2012 In 2023,
7.6% of U.S. adults said they align themselves with the LGBTQ+ community,
compared to 3.5% in 2012, the first year Gallup collected such metrics. That
figure has grown every year since 2012.


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THE NUMBER OF U.S. ADULTS WHO IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ+ DOUBLED IN 12 YEARS, NEW POLL
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Updated March 13, 20241:22 PM ET Originally published March 13, 20241:18 PM ET

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The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in
the last 12 years, according to new polling from Gallup.

The latest results show that 7.6% of U.S. adults now align themselves with the
LGBTQ+ community — up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup started collecting this
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The latest findings continue a trend showing that the number of LGBTQ+ American
adults has increased every year the analytics company has collected such
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"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+."

Each younger generation is about 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+.

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Gallup collected its 2023 data through telephone surveys with more than 12,000
Americans 18 or older.

Of the respondents, 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.

Women are twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+, a data point that does
not account for the nonbinary population, Gallup noted.


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"There are not sufficient cases to provide precise estimates of LGBTQ+
identification among nonbinary Americans for 2023 alone, but combined data from
2022 and 2023 indicate that about 80% of nonbinary adults identify as LGBTQ+,
with one-third being bisexual and one-third transgender."

About one in eight LGBTQ+ adults are transgender, Gallup said — or less than 1%
of the total American adult population.

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