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Accelerating Acceptance 2023
As the LGBTQ community continues to expand and become more seeable, the 2023 Accelerating Acceptance study reveals that a tape number of non-LGBTQ Americans support same rights for the LGBTQ community. The Study also shows that an overwhelming majority of non-LGBTQ Americans now accept that LGBTQ people should have the freedom to reside their life and not be discriminated against, and that schools should be a safe and accepting place for all youth.
With the release of this data, GLAAD finds that support for LGBTQ equal rights in America among non-LGBTQ people is now at an all-time high. Any narrative claiming otherwise, goes against a statistical supermajority of consensus, public belief and American ethics. The Study also directly correlates how the epidemic of anti-LGBTQ legislation and online hate leads to higher levels of real-world hurt for LGBTQ people, including but not limited to discrimination and violence.
Moreover, GLAAD’s Accelerating Acceptance investigate finds that while acceptance for LGBTQ people and youth have reached write down highs, the explore also reveals a significant lack of understanding and familiarity for nonbinary and transg
ICYMI: New Numbers Shows that Nearly 30% of Gen Z Adults Name as LGBTQ+
by Aneesha Pappy •
The differences along generational lines illustrate a positive shift in the social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, allowing younger generations to feel more comfortable and more empowered to advance out
WASHINGTON–New findings released this week from Public Religion Explore Institute (PRRI) polling and focus groups conducted last August and September illustrate that 28% of Gen Z adults (ages 18-25) name as LGBTQ+, which is substantially higher than what’s been reported by other sources, such as Gallup. This grow highlights a positive change in the social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people amongst younger generations and is further proof that the American electorate will be increasingly more out and allied as members of Gen Z turn 18. In comparison, PRRI found that 16% of millennials, 7% of Generation X, 4% of infant boomers and 4% of the Silent Generation identify as LGBTQ+.
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson released the obeying statement:
“Whether it’s at the polls, in marches and rallies, or online, LGBTQ+ visibility matters and Gen Z is a coerce for change. ThoLGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification finds 9.3% of U.S. adults detecting as lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an raise of more than a percentage point versus the prior estimate, from 2023. Longer term, the figure has nearly doubled since 2020 and is up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup first measured it.
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LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans enter adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- identify as LGBTQ+. Each 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.
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LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people have also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years.
Gallup has
What’s Behind the Rapid Grow in LGBTQ Identity?
Newsletter Rally 6, 2025
Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
Since 2012, Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first few years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, double attraction, transgender, or queer was relatively low and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year expand in LGBTQ identity. In 2024, nearly one in ten (9.3 percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.
The unwavering rise in LGBTQ individuality among the public is worth noting, but it’s not the most crucial part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic increase among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of juvenile women who identify as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as well. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to identify as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS 2020-2021 information for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of information provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost 13.9 million (13,942,200) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults stay in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT