The Gallup organization revealed that the rate of American adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer has doubled from the previous decade.
For the 2022 Gallup survey — which was published Wednesday and chronicled the orientation opinions of 10,736 U.S. adults — 7.2% of Americans identified as LGBTQ.
That's an uptick from a similar survey in 2012, when Gallup reported that 3.5% of U.S. adults identified with the LGBTQ classification.
The Gallup Poll notes the number of American LGBTQ adults from 2022 lies relatively flat, compared to the 2021 survey tally (7.1% of adults).
Here's a breakdown of the most recent Gallup survey:
- More than half of LGBTQ Americans participating in the poll (4.2%) identified as bisexual.
- For other classifications, 1.4% of Americans surveyed identified as gay, 1% said they were lesbian, and 0.6% identified as transgender.
- Nearly 20% of Generation Z adults, or 19.7%, said they identified as LGBTQ in the most recent poll, while 11.2% of millennials acknowledged the same.
- Among older generations identifying as LGBTQ, 3.3% were Generation Xers, 2.7% were baby boomers, and 1.7% were part of the Silent Generation — those born between the mid-1920s and mid-1940s.
According to The Hill, the 2022 Gallup Poll had a margin-of-error rate of 1 percentage point. However, among the 584 LBGTQ identifying adults polled, the margin-of-error rate was at 5 percentage points.