• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Wow, not from the US but I can’t imagine every 3rd person I meet my age being queer… Here across the pond it’s like every 10th

        • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          9 months ago

          Bisexuality is important here.

          Half of all queers are bisexual according to that last survey.

          I think, this is what really pushed the numbers upwards during the last decades.

          So, that young LGBT person on the other side of the road could live in a heterosexual relationship, but being attracted to both genders.

        • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          It’s only 30% if you are around people who are from Gen Z exclusively. The overall percentage is lower.

          “In its most recent poll, released in February of last year, Gallup found 7.2% of adults in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ, including nearly 20% of those in Gen Z, which that survey defined as those ages 19 to 26.”

          The point is to show that newer generations, especially Gen Z, are identifying as LGBTQ+ at a higher rate than previous generations. That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the numbers are lower for past generations because there are more dead and closeted LGBTQ+ people in those generations.

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        When I first heard the statistic it was “under 1%” then it changed to just 1%, then at some point it got bumped to 3%, 5, 10, and honestly I just stopped listening at some point.

        I’d love to know what the true percentages are, not the “society doesn’t accept me so I will hide for the rest of my life and have a family like I’m supposed to” percentages we have. I actually knew a couple who lived in separate rooms because when they got married, it was so people would stop questioning them. They’re both gay, but neither ever had a long term partner while “married” because their family would find out. That is just heartbreaking. I don’t doubt their love for each other, but it wasn’t a romantic love, and though they made the best with what they had, they deserved better.

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          It’s incredible, it’s so painful to even just imagine having to live like that. Let alone actually do it.

          I saw a good portrayal of that kind of marriage in For all mankind.