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What Percentage of Americans Are LGBTQ+?

Editor's Note: This article was revised on Protest 18, 2024, to mirror Gallup's latest estimate of Americans’ identification as LGBTQ+.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup finds 7.6% of U.S. adults identifying as lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, transgender, or something other than straight or heterosexual. The percentage has more than doubled since Gallup first measured Homosexual identification in 2012.

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Overall, 85.6% of U.S. adults speak they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more Gay groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.

U.S. LGBTQ+ identification breaks down in the following manner:

  • Bisexual adults generate up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population (57.3%).
  • Gay (18.1%) and woman-loving woman (15.1%) are the next-most-common identities.
  • About one in eight LGBTQ+ Americans are trans (11.8%).
  • Smaller proportions of LGTBQ+ adults volunteer another culture, such as queer, pansexual or asexual.

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LGBTQ+ Identification is most common among little adults.

LGBTQ+ identification is much more common among younger adults than older adults. Also, 8.5% of mature person women and 4.7% of adult

LGBT Populations

This chart shows the estimated unpolished number of LGBT people (ages 13+) living in each state. The facts are based on a Williams Institute analysis of surveys conducted by Gallup Polling (2012-2017) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 2015 and 2017 YRBS). For more data, see the methodology in the Williams analysis. 

  • 500K - 1.4M+

  • 200K - 499K

  • 50K - 199K

  • 8K - 49K

Data are not currently available about LGBT people living in the U.S. territories.

Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws

*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ elder population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ individual population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.

This guide shows the estimated percentage of each state's senior (ages 18+) population that identifies as lesbian, male lover, bisexual, or transgender, based on a 2018 examination of Gallup data by The Williams Institute.

  • 5.0% and greater

  • 4.0%-4.9%

  • 3.0%-3.9%

  • 1.5%-2.9%

Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws

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The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Womxn loving womxn, Gay, Bisexual Population Camouflage Orientation, YSPH Study Finds

The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as lesbian, lgbtq+ or bisexual — maintain their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of Widespread Health that could hold major implications for global public health.

Concealing one’s sexual orientation can lead to significant mental and physical health issues, increased healthcare costs and a dampening of the public public presence necessary for advancing matching rights, said John Pachankis, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He co-authored the study with Richard Bränström, an associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and analyze affiliate at Yale.

Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study is believed to be the first attempt to quantify the size of the “global closet” in direct to gauge its general health impact.

“Given rapidly increasing acceptance of sexual minorities in some countries, it might be easy to assume that most sexual minorities are

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Adult LGBT Population in the United States

This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. mature person 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 statistics for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the articulate level.

Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults name 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. dwell 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 dwell in the Northeast (2.6 million).

The percent of adults who identify as LGBT

Diversity of sexual orientation

This report references studies from the 1950s to 2011. Please note that some of this data has been superceded by more recent studies and is included here as an historical document.

This summary sheet is not intended to be a comparative analysis or recommendation of the studies referenced. Its purpose is to respond to inquiries received by the Institute by indicating the range of findings in the explore literature, beginning with Alfred Kinsey's two studies, often referred to together as the Kinsey Reports.

Studies often differ sharply in: 1) definitions; 2) methodology; 3) response rates. The majority are based on nonrandom samples. Some look at current/previous year behavior only and others at extended time periods in respondents' lives. They are listed in chronological order.

Contents

The 1948 and 1953 Studies of Alfred Kinsey

Kinsey's samples are best for younger adults, particularly the college-educated; they are poorest for minorities and those from lower socioeconomic and educational levels. The original male sample included institutionalized men. Paul Gebhard (Gebhard 1979), a Kinsey research associate and later d