Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are

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Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are

By Garance Franke-Ruta
May 31 2012

Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.
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One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it's among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.

But what percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? With the debate over same-sex marriage again an emerging fault line in American political life, the answer comes as a surprise: A lower number than you might think -- and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.

In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.

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Kinsey "polled" homosexuals, pedophiles, and prison inmates, and then sold the results as "normal".
And progressives bought it, and continue to shout that shit from the rooftops, even though they know it's horsecrap.

Know why? Progressives aren't concerned with truth. They're concerned with creating a culture of depravity and death.

You wouldn't know truth if it smacked you upside the head.

 

[koshergrl]

I know that Kinsey used a skewed population and pretended they were representative, and assholes like you are okay with that because it suits your own purpose.

 

[bodecea]

I know that Kinsey used a skewed population and pretended they were representative, and assholes like you are okay with that because it suits your own purpose.

Dang! If it weren't for Kinsey, there'd be no gay people....GRRRRRRRRRR!

 

[Swagger]

Turd burglary is disgusting and should be punished with fire. Law has been given!

 

[koshergrl]

I know that Kinsey used a skewed population and pretended they were representative, and assholes like you are okay with that because it suits your own purpose.

Dang! If it weren't for Kinsey, there'd be no gay people....GRRRRRRRRRR!

Noooo, if it weren't for Kinsey, people wouldn't believe that a huge portion of the population is gay, however.

His job was to normalize depravity. He did a good job, too. He did it by taking perverts and criminals, and pretending they were *normal*...and by sexually abusing children, and declaring their pain during abuse proved they were *sexual* from birth.

Your kinda guy!

 

[bodecea]

I know that Kinsey used a skewed population and pretended they were representative, and assholes like you are okay with that because it suits your own purpose.

Dang! If it weren't for Kinsey, there'd be no gay people....GRRRRRRRRRR!

Noooo, if it weren't for Kinsey, people wouldn't believe that a huge portion of the population is gay, however.

His job was to normalize depravity. He did a good job, too. He did it by taking perverts and criminals, and pretending they were *normal*...and by sexually abusing children, and declaring their pain during abuse proved they were *sexual* from birth.

Your kinda guy!

Show me who says that gays are "a Huge Portion" of the population.

 

[koshergrl]

I'd say the fake claim of 25-10 percent versus the reality of 3 percent is huge.

 

[koshergrl]

Meanwhile, fuck off, you piece of shit. You're a worthless mod, and a worthless person.

 

[bodecea]

I'd say the fake claim of 25-10 percent versus the reality of 3 percent is huge.

Who here is claiming 25-10 percent? That would mean there are more gay people than there are black people in the U.S. I've seen no one (besides you) make such a silly claim.

 

[bodecea]

Meanwhile, fuck off, you piece of shit. You're a worthless mod, and a worthless person.

Tissue, little girl?

 

[koshergrl]

None for me, thanks.

A bucket to puke in, maybe.

 

[amrchaos]

I was thinking

Why is the number of gays in America remotely important?


Let say we are like Iran--you know, a nation without one homosexual in it--What difference would that make if the country was filled with horny bi-curious lesbians(OK--what kind of country would you want if it was filled with gays, huh!?)?

Not much, right. So why is the number of gays in our country relevant?

 

[bodecea]

None for me, thanks.

A bucket to puke in, maybe.

Did you choke on something? Your own words, perhaps?

 

[bodecea]

I was thinking

Why is the number of gays in America remotely important?


Let say we are like Iran--you know, a nation without one homosexual in it--What difference would that make if the country was filled with horny bi-curious lesbians(OK--what kind of country would you want if it was filled with gays, huh!?)?

Not much, right. So why is the number of gays in our country relevant?

Apparently, to some, there is some magical number that if you fall under it, the government doesn't have to give you equal rights.

For example....if a certain religion.....Judaism, for instance....made up less than a certain percentage, the government can withhold equal rights.

No.......wait.

 

[bayoubill]

No matter their numbers, without homosexuals the world would be a much less rich and interesting place...

 

[koshergrl]

No, but when you have the homo lobby insisting that 25 percent of all Americans are gay..and that's an outright lie meant to mainstream the homo lifestyle, we have a problem.

When they cite numbers established by a child molester whose studies concerning adult sexuality, the sexuality of children, and what constitutes "normalcy"...while they claim homosexuality is completely unrelated to the sexualization of children out the other side of their mouths....then we have a problem.

You have a tiny minority, insisting their lifestyle is normal...based on numbers provided to us by a pervert who sexually abused children to establish the *norms* they cite as evidence of their *normality*.

That's a problem.

 

[bodecea]

No matter their numbers, without homosexuals the world would be a much less rich and interesting place...

Interesting. I like that you said Interesting.

 

[High_Gravity]

Theres no way to know how many gays there actually are because alot of them are still closeted in some places and trying to live as heteros.

 

[bodecea]

No, but when you have the homo lobby insisting that 25 percent of all Americans are gay..and that's an outright lie meant to mainstream the homo lifestyle, we have a problem.

When they cite numbers established by a child molester whose studies concerning adult sexuality, the sexuality of children, and what constitutes "normalcy"...while they claim homosexuality is completely unrelated to the sexualization of children out the other side of their mouths....then we have a problem.

You have a tiny minority, insisting their lifestyle is normal...based on numbers provided to us by a pervert who sexually abused children to establish the *norms* they cite as evidence of their *normality*.

That's a problem.

Link that claim.

 

[bodecea]

Theres no way to know how many gays there actually are because alot of them are still closeted in some places and trying to live as heteros.

Yep...and that usually does not work out well at the end.