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liveonearth ([personal profile] liveonearth) wrote2015-03-31 08:26 am

LGBT Numbers

The city with the highest concentration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is no surprise: San Francisco at 6.2%. Next is my new hometown Portland, Oregon, at 5.4%. Austin, Texas is third at 5.3%. The surprise was fourth place. Salt Lake City came in at 4%. I must say, I have known more than a few lesbians who were closeted within their LDS communities. Here in Portland I keep meeting jack-Mormons.

SOURCE
The Week, 4/3/15 issue, factoids taken from The New York Times
page 14 in the "Noted" section

[identity profile] bobby1933.livejournal.com 2015-03-31 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My recollection of the KLnsey Report suggested that about six percent of American male adults were homosexual, and another thirty percent were "ambiguous." For women, about four percent were lesbian and another twenty plus percent some bisexual proclivities. I do not what the perameters, if any, of this 1947 study were or how they have held up over the years. How many times do you have to have same sex sex to earn the title "bisexual" or "homosexual?" How many ventures into heterosexual adventures get one labeled "bisexual" or "heterosexual?" And what about people who never engage in sexual intercourse, or tried it once and decided not to go there again? Are they "celibate" or do they get to create their own labels? I think i am heterosexual, but i have never given myself a chance to find out otherwise. My "predilections," if i never act on them, are nobody's business.