The proportion of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has risen to 9.3% of the population, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday. <\/p>\n
The finding represents an increase of more than 1 percentage point from 2023\u2019s estimate. The <\/strong>proportion of the population identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or non-heterosexual has nearly doubled since 2020 and has jumped from 3.5% since 2012, when it was first measured by Gallup, an analytics and advisory company based in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n \u201cIf there is one thing that people should take away from these new findings, it is this: LGBTQ+ people have always been here, and we will continue to be here, no matter what laws or policies attempt to erase us,\u201d said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, via email. <\/p>\n The boost has a lot to do with young people, who have been much more likely than older generations to identify as something other than heterosexual, Gallup said. <\/p>\n \u201cMore than one in five Gen Z adults \u2014 those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 \u2014 identify as LGBTQ+,\u201d according to Gallup\u2019s report. \u201cEach older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946.\u201d <\/p>\n The percentage of young people identifying as LGBTQ+ has increased over the past two years from an average of 18.8% in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7%, according to the poll. Gallup also observed an increase of nearly 2 percentage points among millennials and an increase of 1 percentage point among Generation X. <\/p>\n The findings are based on phone interviews conducted in 2024 with more than 14,100 adults in the United States. Overall, 85.7% of respondents said they were straight, whereas 5.2% were bisexual, 2% were gay, 1.4% were lesbian and 1.3% were transgender, the pollsters found. Just under 1% identified as another LGBTQ+ identity, such as pansexual, asexual or queer. Five percent of respondents declined to answer. <\/p>\n Among the 899 LGBTQ+ participants from the overall sample, 56% reported being bisexual, 21% said they were gay, 15% identified themselves as lesbian, 14% reported being transgender and 6% said they were \u201csomething else.\u201d (These figures total more than 100% due to Gallup allowing participants to report more than one identity. For example, a person can be transgender and pansexual.) More than half of Generation Z said they were bisexual. <\/p>\n\n
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