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October 18, 2012

3.4%: The Mini-Me Minority

Massive study finds only 3.4% of American adults identify as LGBT A massive new survey published this morning reveals that only 3.4% of American adults
publicly identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, with the highest percentage coming among the younger, less-educated non-whites. The new Gallup Poll of more than 121,000 adults, the largest of its kind on record, wass conducted during the past four months. Itfinds the percentage of self-reported LGBT Americans to be much smaller than a general impression derived from their presence in popular culture and their perceived influence in liberal American politics.

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“…perceived influence in liberal American politics.”

Perceived?

Posted by: tim at October 18, 2012 11:51 AM

No shit Sherlock!

I'm glad this study was done, as many of us were well aware of the miniscule size of this group.

How about another such massive study to show that white hetero-Americans still represent a lopsided majority of the population?

The leverage that the disaffected, "disadvantaged," and the "victimized" enjoy in our aggregated decision making process is a scandal.

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at October 18, 2012 12:15 PM

Gay activists claimed for decades that the percentage was much higher, but it was all a shameless lie--a lie enforced by the accusation of "homophobia" if one disputed the numbers.

Posted by: pst314 at October 18, 2012 1:22 PM

The squealing wheel gets the KY.

JWM

Posted by: jwm at October 18, 2012 1:24 PM

*margin of error = 3.4%

Posted by: RPG at October 18, 2012 2:59 PM

From: "The Love That Dare not Speak Its Name" to the "The Love That Will Not Shut Up".

The Story of a Cultural Disaster.

Posted by: Fat Man at October 18, 2012 3:22 PM

Well that's a survey but I think 1.5-3% is closer to reality. I think that's what the last census said.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 18, 2012 3:30 PM

Ten percent, my foot!

(Remember how they used to ram that number down our throats?)

Posted by: newton at October 18, 2012 3:35 PM

The real scandal was that they used the bullshit "10%" number since the mid-80's to extort $$$ billions in the effort to find a cure for a completely preventable disease, at the expense of all other disease research.
And knowing it was preventable, continued (and still continue - see Zombie's blog if you really don't know) that same set of behaviors, calling out "homophobe!!" anytime the truth was/is mentioned.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 18, 2012 3:37 PM

The stuff I'm reading from these groups who can only be described as sexually disoriented is frightening. Not only are they confused about their own sex, they are in positions of power in all of academia to confuse children, too. They have completely confused language, as well, until it is meaningless gibberish.They are sick, twisted people. They are the bullies dominating the anti-bully crusades.

Posted by: Jewel at October 18, 2012 9:00 PM

I am the 96%.

Posted by: Rich Fader at October 18, 2012 9:19 PM

VD, and its cures, leaves a record in blood, and it leaves a trail in gay men that is distinct from hetero men. The army, which tested every one of them, estimated that 1.5% of their millions of draftees and volunteers in the 1960's were homosexual. That's about right.

But you can raise that figure exponentially if that is what you really want to do. Which is what the Spartans did. There isn't a Nambla chapter out there that doesn't know that.

Posted by: james wilson at October 18, 2012 9:50 PM

I always did think they pulled that 10% figure out of their ass.

Posted by: Mike James at October 18, 2012 10:00 PM

'Massive' new study?

Goodbye Unbiased Press and Goodbye Unbiased 'Scientific' studies.

We hardly knew ye.

Posted by: cond0011 at October 19, 2012 6:12 AM

Actually, the bullshit "10%" figure was first cited in the badly-flawed Kinsey sex study in the 1950s. That study conducted a lot of its research in prisons, which skewed the results towards homosexual proclivities, i.e., "any port in a storm". Studies using less biased sampling techniques have consistently reported homosexuals of all types to be in exactly the 1.5-3% range. Maybe somebody should tell the MSM this.

Posted by: waltj at October 19, 2012 10:01 AM

Waltj- "Maybe somebody should tell the MSM this."
THEY ARE THE 10%!!

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 20, 2012 8:45 AM

Yes, Uncle Jefe, I think you're right--Anderson Cooper and "Dick" Quest, to name only two on one network.

Posted by: waltj at October 20, 2012 10:39 PM

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