There Are More LGBTQ+ Americans Than Ever Before
A record 7.1% of US adults now identify as LGBTQ+, according to an annual poll from Gallup, which surveyed 12,000+ Americans above the age of 18.
🔢 By the numbers: That marks a ~27% increase from 2020, when 5.6% of Americans identified as LGBTQ+. The rise is almost entirely attributed to the higher prevalence of such identities among young adults when compared with the older generations they’re replacing (check out the graphic☝️).
- Among Gen Z, women are roughly three times more likely to identify as LGBTQ+ than men. Millennial women are about twice as likely to do so.
- More than half of LGBTQ+ Americans (57%) indicate they’re bisexual, which translates to 4% of the entire US adult population.
🇺🇸 The big picture: Over the past decade, the number of US adults identifying as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled. And Jeff Jones, the author of the Gallup study, told Axios that number could increase even further to 10%–15% of the adult population "in the not-too-distant future."
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