What I mean is, are gay men in media more acknowledged than lesbians are? Are they more popular to portray as characters, whether fully fledged 3 dimensional characters are as stock stereotypes in a clip or television show?
I say this because...as I was going through youtube I noticed an interesting trend- Flashy, ranting gay men are really widespread. Luan, Kingsley, they are all gay men who own channels on youtube where they upload videos of them ranting....about anything. And I notice a complete lack of queer gals with popular youtube channels. And then I started thinking about queer female characters...there aren't bunch that I can ponder of. For same-sex attracted men I could at least consider of stock characters and more developed characters.
Wtf is going on? It seems the only "lesbians" shown are the horny colleges girls trying to impress ze dudes. Where are all my legit lessies at?
Or are gay men just the default male lover character, as men in general manage to be the default "human/hero/protagonist". :\
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to expand, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender nonconforming, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated data from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.
Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of Queer adults say they are bisexual. Gay and queer woman are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT
Bisexual FAQ
What does bisexual mean?
In simplest terms, a bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender; but adults and youth who recognize as bisexual sometimes portray themselves differently. Many multi-attracted adults have embraced the definition proposed by longtime bisexual leader, national speaker and award-winning activist Robyn Ochs:
"I call myself attracted to both genders because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the alike time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree."
This broad definition of bisexuality includes people who identify as pansexual, queer, fluid and other labels that suggest potential attraction to more than one gender.
How many people are bisexual?
According to the Williams Institute and the HRC Foundation's own investigate, studies suggest that about 50 percent of people who identify as either gay, lesbian or pansexual, identify as bisexual. This makes the bisexual population the single largest collective within the LGBTQ+ community.
Can a transgender person also be bisexual?
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. senior 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 numbers for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the express level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults spot 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. survive 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 dwell in the Northeast (2.6 million).