Friday, June 14, 2013

Survey of LGBT Americans

There's a new poll out from Pew, surveying LGBT Americans.  One caveat, they have about 40% self-identified bisexuals, which seems a bit high.  And as Andrew Sullivan says, aggregating LGBT all together is a bit problematic, since the experience of bi or trans people is obviously quite different from that of lesbians and gays.  Still, it's interesting.  Some of the findings:

Bisexuals are closeted.




And,
As for gender patterns, the survey finds that lesbians are more likely than gay men to be in a committed relationship (66% versus 40%); likewise, bisexual women are much more likely than bisexual men to be in one of these relationships (68% versus 40%). In addition women, whether lesbian or bisexual, are significantly more likely than men to either already have children or to say they want to have children one day.







2 comments:

PseudoPiskie said...

Been thinking about this. If a person is never in a situation to act on same sex attraction, is s/he unaware of real sexuality or unwilling to express bi sentiment? If one has never had an opportunity to have a same sex relationship, is it possible to not be aware of that?

IT said...

I think it is possible to be aware of an attraction without necessarily acting upon it, or having a sexual experience.