If this line ever turns around and starts coming down, you’ll know there really is a vibe shift going on.
The famous old Gallup Poll company has gotten out of Presidential election polling in recent years, but they do plenty of other surveys and ask respondents demographic questions.
Among the nearly 900 LGBTQ+ individuals Gallup interviewed last year, more than half, 56%, said they were bisexual. Twenty-one percent said they were gay, 15% lesbian, 14% transgender and 6% something else.
It’s not like more people are going gay, it’s like each year more people reach the minimum age to participate in Gallup surveys who grew up during the LGBTQ+ indoctrination era:
Whether due to political sorting or something else, Democrats (14%) and independents (11%) are far more likely than Republicans (3%) to identify as LGBTQ+.
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.
Ten percent of women versus 6% of men say they are LGBTQ+; the difference is mostly because women are more likely than men to say they are bisexual. …
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.
These gaps are pretty much generational rather than regional or educational:
LGBTQ+ identification is higher among people living in cities (11%) and suburbs (10%) than in rural areas (7%).
College graduates (9%) and nongraduates (10%) are about equally likely to identify as LGBTQ+.
Keep in mind that these are questions about nominal self-identification rather than actual sexual behavior.
> Keep in mind that these are questions about nominal self-identification rather than actual sexual behavior.
Correct, plenty of college girls who identify as bisexual will marry a reasonably-nice fellow before reaching 30 and have their 1.8 children. Also, the philosopher Andrew Clay Silverstein has pointed out that "bisexual" isn't really a thing; one either performs fellatio or one does not (to clean up his language). Therefore a bisexual woman is really straight while a bisexual man is really gay.
I know many of these Gen Z “bisexual” women. In the vast majority of cases they have never had a relationship with a woman, most have never even had a sexual experience with a woman beyond, maybe, a kiss. It’s theoretical bisexuality, mostly performative in my opinion.