Most people think the percentage is 10% to 20%...

...but studies routinely point out that the percentage of homosexuals in the population is less than 2%.

//A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday indicates the number may be a lot lower than most people think.

According to the National Health Interview Survey, 96.6 percent of Americans identify as heterosexual, while 1.6 percent identify as gay or lesbian; 0.7 percent identify as bisexual; and 1.1 percent “don’t know the answer” or are “something else.”//

The power of propaganda is an awesome thing.

Not what I'd assumed based on media stereotypes -

'White people are less likely to be gay': Poll reveals African-American community has highest percentage of 'LGBT' adults in U.S.

•Gallup survey, based on interviews with more than 121,000 people, showed that 3.4% of U.S. adults were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT)
•Highest proportion in black community, at 4.6%, followed by Asians (4.3%), Hispanics (4%) and Caucasians (3.2%)
•Poll found 44% of LGBT adults were Democratic, and 13% Republican
 

The Democrat v. Republican is obviously a matter of individual selection, but I would have assumed that homosexuality would be less tolerated in the black and hispanic culture than in the white culture.

Just goes to show what happens when you assume.

The story confirms the media stereotype:

The survey – based on interviews with more than 121,000 people – contradicts the perception that lesbians and gays are mostly white, urban and affluent, said lead author Gary Gates.
‘Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy,’ said Mr Gates of the University of California, Los Angeles. ‘But this data reveals that relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of non-white people and clearly is not overly wealthy.’
The survey revealed a slight gender difference – 3.6 per cent of women identified themselves as lesbian or gay, compared with 3.3 per cent of men.This discrepancy was particularly marked among younger adults, aged 18 to 29, where 8.3 per cent of women said they were LGBT compared with only 4.6 per cent of men.

 

Gallup confirms that homosexuals are not more than 1% of the population; in order to pump up the number, the GBLT community has to include people who disprove the canard that sexuality is fixed from birth.

Although most people think that homosexuals are around 20 to 40% of the population.

I grew up with the canard - repeated time and time again - that homosexuals were 10% of the population. There was no data supporting this, but it was repeated so often that it became true per se. The gay paper at U.C. Davis was called "10%" as I recall.

But it is and always has been nonsense. There have been innumerable studies done by pro-gay institutes that confirm that the gay population may be around 1.2% and the lesbian population around 10% to 50% of that number.

Gallup comes in with another poll that identifies the GBLT community as 3.4% of the population.

That number is higher than the 1% I quote, but that is because of the "B" in "GBLT", i.e., bisexual, which probably accounts for two-thirds of the respondents.

Why is that significant?

Because we are told that sexuality is a fixed identity component and that simple justice demands that we reshape the concept of marriage for the 99% because of the 1% that are fixed in their sexual identity.

But what about "Bisexuals." Doesn't the "bi" mean anything, such as a fluidity and choice-making behavior among the largest component of the GBLT community.

The "B"s are included because they are "opportunistic homosexuals" - a group that has long been known to exist in prison populations and English private schools - and because without the "B"s, the population of "G"s, "L"s and "T"s disappears as statitstical noise. But the "B"s undermine the narrative of the homosexual project, which is based on making that community into a fixed and insular minority, for the purpose of getting "heightened scrutiny" under "footnote 4" of the Carolene Products decision, which it isn't.