NEW POLE FINDS NEARLY A QUARTER OF GEN Z IDENTIFY AS LGBT

National Review

 

Nearly a Quarter of Gen Z Identifies as LGBTQ+, New Poll Finds

By ABIGAIL ANTHONY

March 14, 2024 8:14 AM

 

Over 7 percent of all adults and 22 percent of Generation Z in the United States claim a sexual orientation other than heterosexual, according to a new Gallup poll.

 

A Gallup poll surveyed over 12,000 adults in the United States and found that 7.6 percent of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or something other than heterosexual, more than double the percentage Gallup recorded when it first measured sexual orientation and transgender identity in 2012. Women are nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+, the poll found.

 

Among the respondents who identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, roughly 57 percent said they are bisexual, 18 percent say they are gay, 15 percent say they are lesbian, and 11 percent say they are transgender.

 

According to Gallup, each generation is about twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ+ as the preceding generation. Over 22 percent of Generation Z (born 1997-2012) identifies as something other than straight, in comparison with about 10 percent of Millennials (born 1981-1996), 4.5 percent of Generation X (born 1965-1980), and 2 percent of Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964).

 

The survey found that 8.5 percent of all women identify as LGBTQ+, compared with 4.7 percent of all men. Nearly 30 percent of Generation Z women say they are LGBTQ+ and over 20 percent say they are bisexual, compared with 12 percent of Millennial women who say they are LGBTQ+ and 9 percent saying they are bisexual. Only 7 percent of Generation Z men and 2.5 percent of Millennial men say they are bisexual.

 

Nearly 3 percent of Generation Z identifies as transgender, which is more than Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation combined.

 

National Review previously reported that a study by the Cultural Currents Institute, which analyzes public opinion trends, found a staggering 1300 percent increase in “am I gay,” “am I lesbian,” “am I trans,” “how to come out,” and “nonbinary” Google searches since 2004 across the United States. (The data gathered from Google Trends is relative to all Google searches, meaning that the increase in search popularity does not reflect more people using the search engine.) From May 2022 to May 2023, the states which had the highest Google search rate for “am I gay” were Utah, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Hampshire.