Americans think gay population is 735% higher than it is, Gallup finds
Americans think gay population is 735% higher than it is, Gallup finds
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 19, 2012, (Family Research Center)—When a Gallup poll asked people to estimate how many Americans were homosexual in 2011, most guessed 25 percent.
Turns out, they were about 22 percent off. The actual number, Gallup reported Thursday, is about 3.4 percent—a startling statistic for most people who just naturally assumed the media saturation was driven by a big population.
Who can blame them? These numbers should be shocking to anyone who’s lived through the deluge of gay and lesbian policy, entertainment, school curriculum, and corporate capitulation of the past 10 years.
According to Gallup, this survey is the largest single study of the U.S. LGBT population ever conducted.
Over four months, Gallup canvassed the country by phone, interviewing more than 121,000 people.
Just last year, the Department of Health and Human Services released a similar figure of 3.8 percent.
In this instance, the biggest concentrations of LGBT were young adults (6.4 percent), women (3.6 percent), and young women (8.3 percent).
Although the homosexual community may not be the largest in the U.S., it’s certainly the loudest. That might explain the major disconnect between the media’s portrayal and reality.
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