Bisexual or gay
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gay identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , 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 numbers 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, pansexual, 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 produce 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
Bisexual People
Despite comprising more than half of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community, bisexual people are under-reported or poorly reported by media, erasing their presence as well as their specific experiences and challenges, leading many people who are bisexual to notice misunderstood and isolated.
Bisexual, Bi, Bi+
An adjective used to detail a person who has the potential to be physically, romantically, and/or emotionally attracted to people of more than one gender, not necessarily at the equal time, in the same way, or to the same degree. The bi in bisexual refers to genders the same as and different from one’s have gender. Do not write or imply that bi means organism attracted to men and women. That is not an exact definition of the word. Perform not use a hyphen in the word bisexual.
People may life this attraction in differing ways and degrees over their lifetime. Bisexual people need not include had specific sexual experiences to be bisexual; in fact, they need not have had any sexual experience at all to call themselves bisexual. Some people use the words bisexual and bi to describe the society. Others may use bi+, which is intended to be inclusive o
Not to be confused with Bi-Veldian.
A bi gay or bi-oriented gay is someone who is both bisexual/biromantic/etc. and gay.
This designation can be used by men and others who use the split attraction model and are pansexual and homoromantic, homosexual biromantic or those who trial gay or bi tertiary attraction. They have sexual attraction to two or more genders but are only romantically attracted to their own/similar gender(s). They may find themselves sexually attracted to dissimilar genders, but could never picture themselves in a sexual relationship with them, putting more emphasis on their attraction to their own/similar genders, though this varies from person to person. Or they could be romantically attracted to any gender but only sexually attracted to the same/similar gender or are only willing to be with the same/similar gender(s) sexually.
It can also be used by people who identify as both double attraction and gay, either due to changing attraction (such as abrosexuality), or due being part of a plural system, such as having a different sexuality when fronting, or existence in a median system where one member somewhat experiences their headmate(s)' attraction(s).
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Bisexual FAQ
What does bisexual mean?
In simplest terms, a bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender; but adults and youth who identify as bisexual person sometimes describe themselves differently. Many multi-attracted adults have embraced the definition proposed by longtime multi-attracted leader, national speaker and award-winning activist Robyn Ochs:
"I phone myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree."
This broad definition of bisexuality includes people who identify as pansexual, queer, fluid and other labels that suggest potential attraction to more than one gender.
How many people are bisexual?
According to the Williams Institute and the HRC Foundation's own research, studies suggest that about 50 percent of people who determine as either male lover, lesbian or bisexual person, identify as bisexual person. This makes the bisexual population the single largest collective within the Queer community.