What percentage of the world is gay 2020
Majority Worldwide Now Say Their Area Is Good for Gay People
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- For the first time, majority speak their area is a good place for same-sex attracted people
- Gay acceptance highest in European countries, other Western nations
- Acceptance low in countries in Africa, post-Soviet Eurasia, southeastern Europe
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first hour in Gallup World Poll’s trend dating back to 2006, a majority of people (52%) worldwide declare their city or area is a "good place" for gay or queer woman people to live.
The latest figure, based on surveys in 123 countries and areas in 2022, is more than double the 21% recorded when Gallup first asked this ask a decade and a half ago.
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Between 2014 and 2019, perceptions of acceptance stretched to include roughly one in three adults globally, ranging from 31% to 38%. This figure increased markedly in 2020 (49%) and maintained that level in 2021 (50%), with the latest figure marking the first reading in majority territory.
Gallup previously reported that over the decade from 2011 to 2021, more than a dozen countries had gone from minorities saying their area was a wonderful place for gay people to live to majo
Rainbow Europe Map and Index 2020
ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map and Index 2020 reveals that once-leading countries in Europe are falling behind in their commitments to equality for LGBTI people.
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Key findings of the Rainbow Chart 2020 include (as of May 2020):
- There has been no positive change in 49% of countries
- For the second year in a row, countries are moving backwards on the Rainbow Index, as existing protections are disappearing
- Trans rights are where most of the current movement in terms of LGBTI equality is happening, for better or worse.
- Other forward movement, although on a smaller scale, is in the inclusion of equality measures protecting intersex people against discrimination
- Regression is most visible where civil and political rights are eroded: LGBTI human rights defenders increasingly at risk, authorities taking active measures to undermine civil society associations, and shots to ban public events.
Rainbow Europe – ILGA-Europe’s annual benchmarking tool – is comprised of the Rainbow Blueprint and Index and national recommendations. ILGA-Europe have produced the Rainbow Map and Index since 2009, using it to
GLAAD 2020 POST-ELECTION POLL: 81% OF LGBTQ VOTERS VOTED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN; 93% OF REGISTERED LGBTQ VOTERS TURNED OUT TO VOTE AND 25% WERE FIRST-TIME VOTERS
GLAAD: “GLAAD’s poll confirms the impact of the LGBTQ vote as a deciding difference in the 2020 election, especially first-time LGBTQ voters who led a powerful surge of support for the pro-equality ticket.”
Two-thirds of LGBTQ voters say the results of the 2020 presidential election hold them feeling optimistic about the future; though 77% state concern that the new Supreme Court will overturn marriage equality
Issues Impacting the LGBTQ Vote: COVID-19 response, healthcare, racial justice, followed by LGBTQ equality
COVID-19 Response is the Number One Issue for LGBTQ Voters: 36% Face Mental Health Issues after COVID-19
New York, NY – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender, and homosexual (LGBTQ) media activism organization, released the findings of its 2020 Post-election Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, including a phenomenal turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelming vote for President-elect Biden, with votes motivated by th
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Homosexual identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated statistics from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.
Bisexual adults create up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual. Gay and lesbian are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult 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 information for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of statistics provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults identify 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. live 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 LGBT