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What Percentage of Americans Are LGBTQ+?
Editor's Note: This article was revised on Pride 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, queer , bisexual, transgender, or something other than straight or heterosexual. The percentage has more than doubled since Gallup first measured Diverse identification in 2012.
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Overall, 85.6% of U.S. adults state 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 construct up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population (57.3%).
- Gay (18.1%) and womxn loving womxn (15.1%) are the next-most-common identities.
- About one in eight LGBTQ+ Americans are trans person (11.8%).
- Smaller proportions of LGTBQ+ adults volunteer another persona, such as queer, pansexual or asexual.
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LGBTQ+ Identification is most common among juvenile adults.
LGBTQ+ identification is much more common among younger adults than older adults. Also, 8.5% of individual women and 4.7% of adult
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. individual 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 numbers for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the express level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults spot 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. inhabit 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 exist in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LG
American Gay
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5 key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans
Pew Investigate Center has been tracking Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage, gender identity and other LGBTQ+ issues for more than a decade. In that time, we have also done deep explorations of the experiences of LGBT and gender nonconforming and nonbinary Americans.
As the United States celebrates LGBTQ+ Event month, here are five key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans from our recent surveys:
Some 7% of Americans are sapphic, gay or bisexual person, 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 bisexual, 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 determine with any of these terms, as do similar shares of adults across racial and ethnic groups.
How we did this
Pew Research Center sought to provide an overview of findings on Queer Americans. The overview is based on data from Center surveys and analyses conducted from 2019 to 2022, including a 2019 assessment of 2017 survey data from Stanford University. Links to the methodology and questions used can b