Americans are Significantly Overestimating the Number of LGBT People in the US: Due to "Outsized Visibility" Says Gallop Poll

Lori Arnold : Jul 3, 2019
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"Overestimations of the nation's gay population may in part be due to the group's outsized visibility. An annual report by GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, found that representation of LGBT people as television series regulars on broadcast primetime scripted programming reached an all-time high of 8.8 percent in the 2018-2019 television season, which is nearly twice the Gallup's estimate of the actual population." -Gallop Report

(Washington, DC) — [Christianheadlines.com] A new poll by Gallup shows that Americans vastly overestimate the US gay and lesbian population, a trend the polling organization says may be due in part to the "group's outsized visibility." (Image: via Christian Headlines)

The survey, conducted in May and released on June 27, found U.S. adults estimate that nearly one in four (23.6 percent) Americans identify as gay or lesbians. In contrast, that figure is more than five times the percentage of those actually identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in a 2017 Gallup poll. In that survey, Gallup polled respondents who self-identified as LGBT, estimating that population to be 4.5 percent, up from 3.4 percent in its inaugural 2012 survey on that topic... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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