Survey: 20 Percent of Millennials Identify as LGBTQ

[instagramsci]

Going by what young people have told me. Wouldn't be surprised if it varied depending on different schools and different social sets.

I'm willing to bet most of these young people share a pretty distinct thing in common

 

[Harshaw]

These aren't high school kids. They're college-age. Completely different dynamic.

 

[Chomsky]

No matter how you define it though, 20% seems a bit too high IMO.

Unless the bar is set extremely low and wide to include something like, "have you ever thought, or considered, or wondered, or related" etc.

But as for actual sexual practices, 20% strikes me as too high.

 

[TheGoverness]

No matter how you define it though, 20% seems a bit too high IMO.

Unless the bar is set extremely low and wide to include something like, "have you ever thought, or considered, or wondered, or related" etc.

But as for actual sexual practices, 20% strikes me as too high.

It does seem a little too high. But regardless, it is true that more people identify as LGBT.

 

[Josie]

Is this a genuine statement of what you believe

It was a joke -- I mean, there are people who say the acronym is LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM. Would it kill them to add an "S" for us straight folks?

 

[chromium]

No matter how you define it though, 20% seems a bit too high IMO.

Unless the bar is set extremely low and wide to include something like "have you ever thought, or considered, or wondered, or related to" etc.

But as for actual sexual practices, 20% strikes me as too high.

That's the thing, most says just ask "Are you XYZ" without setting any parameters. And when they do, like with Kinsey, they get accused of overly broad or restrictive criteria

I mean, how do you define bisexuality, and how many ever do experiment or admit to themselves and surveyors that they have a slight same sex attraction, is something that it seems to me would logically change alongside social barriers. Regardless of the exact %, it shouldn't be surprising at all that it varies over such a long time. Then i wonder how many 70 year olds that were polled have basically no sex drive left

 

[Fishking]

Happened to me as well, but compared to how the gay guys at my school were treated, I got off pretty easy.

What? Male privilege didn't give them a leg up over you in this category?

 

[TheGoverness]

What? Male privilege didn't give them a leg up over you in this category?

No, it did not.

 

[instagramsci]

It was a joke -- I mean, there are people who say the acronym is LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.

Certainly no one I know. I also looked up that series of letters and found mostly right wing blog posts which isn't a huge surprise I guess

 

[chromium]

Doubtful.

Now again I do NOT claim to be any kind of expert on the subject... just going by 50-plus yrs of being an observer of the human condition.

I've never believed in the inborn/immutable orientation theory, because human behavior is too complex to be so simply explained away.


There are lots of people who have never had any sort of same sex relation and proclaim it is off the table.

There's other people who are mostly straight but but have considered SS relations, or maybe had a singular relationship of that type.

There are those who, when OS partners are unavailable will go SS but return to hetero when OS availability returns (ie prison). And there are those who will rather remain celibate regardless.

There's those who swing both ways.

There's those who are mostly gay but occasionally swing the other way.

Then there are those who are exclusively gay.



I think it is a spectrum rather than a fixed orientation, and like all human behavior subject to change over time and circumstances for many.

I suspect a lot of the young folks are "trying the label on for size" now that it is trendy and cool, but aren't necessarily hard-core LGBTQRSTUV whatever.

Behavior has nothing to do with the theory of 'immutable orientation' though. That has to do with urges

Your explanation of the spectrum also includes a fixed (exclusively) orientation

 

[TheGoverness]

Behavior has nothing to do with the theory of 'immutable orientation' though. That has to do with urges

Your explanation of the spectrum also includes a fixed (exclusively) orientation

Well he did say that he wasn't an expert on this subject.

 

[Josie]

Certainly no one I know. I also looked up that series of letters and found mostly right wing blog posts which isn't a huge surprise I guess

I found Wesleyan University.

 

[instagramsci]

I found Wesleyan University.

Do you know anyone in the LGBT community at Weselayan or how they feel about it? Maybe how it started? My guess is you regard the whole thing the way the bloggers who write about it do

 

[Josie]

Do you know anyone in the LGBT community at Weselayan or how they feel about it? Maybe how it started? My guess is you regard the whole thing the way the bloggers who write about it do

I think you're getting offended by something that's not offensive at all. :shrug:

 

[TheGoverness]

I found Wesleyan University.

LOL. I find it hilarious how they added ellipsis at the end of it.

 

[Fishking]

No, it did not.

Yeah, somehow I don't think "gay dudes" is nearly porn searched as much as "lesbians", lol.

 

[Northern Light]

Uh....OK. According to articles from the 90's, 10% of the US population identified as gay, now 20% do.

What explains the increase in the gay? Why are millennials more likely to be gay than previous generations?

Your question is bogus. You understand what LGBTQ means right? Gay is just one word in it. There are 4 others.

The queer demographic is growing in America. They are mostly "non-aligned" people who don't subscribe to the other labels. My guess is that this accounts for the change.

I'm thinking back to the Kinsey research. He found that 10% of adults openly admitted they were gay, 10% were bisexual, 50% said they were hetero, and a remaining 30% were ambiguous.... i.e. they didn't choose a label or didn't feel like their sexuality was fixed.

 

[CLAX1911]

Uh....OK. According to articles from the 90's, 10% of the US population identified as gay, now 20% do.

What explains the increase in the gay? Why are millennials more likely to be gay than previous generations?

It's contagious and the normies are catching it.

PSA; Should your children be exposed to a gay it's imparative to follow these steps. For boys purchase sports jersey, American football is preferred but baseball and basket ball are acceptable though less effective. Soccer will only exacerbate the problem. Rountinely ask what color something is, if they tell you blue or greenish blue they are likely safe. If they say aquamarine have child asleep in football jersey. Ask your male child how he feels about the furniture in the room, if he says get rid of it and sit on bean bags your in the clear if he at all mentions feng shei or a throw pillow, the situation is dire. Replace football jerseys with hunting camouflage. In fact if he says the word fabulous at all it may be time to take a hunting trip. Just pray that this is during hunting season.

For girls...nobody cares sorry ladies.

 

[trouble13]

Uh....OK. According to articles from the 90's, 10% of the US population identified as gay, now 20% do.

What explains the increase in the gay? Why are millennials more likely to be gay than previous generations?

Overpopulation is the reason for the increase. As technology develops and jobs for humans decrease, mother nature is hard at work trying to decrease our population. Its a built in survival mechanism that takes place at a genetic level.

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[CLAX1911]

It was a joke -- I mean, there are people who say the acronym is LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM. Would it kill them to add an "S" for us straight folks?

Yes, you normies are like a plague to us. Don't come to our parades stay or of our bars and..I dint know where else to go with that one. Sort of dug a hole.


You find your own confusing hard to say acronyms and you can't use the L or G or B or Q. Stay away from X and W we're planning on using those too.

 

[trouble13]

The reason why? Less social stigma. Since it's become much more accepted in our society, more and more people aren't afraid of coming out. Which is a great thing.

Nobody should be ashamed of their sexuality.

On this we agree and its one of the reasons im angered by the shaming tactics directed at heterosexual alpha males. (Not saying you do that, i know you dont.) Everyone should be allowed to openly express themselves as long as they are not harming others

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[Josie]

Overpopulation is the reason for the increase. As technology develops and jobs for humans decrease, mother nature is hard at work trying to decrease our population. Its a built in survival mechanism that takes place at a genetic level.

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That's an interesting theory. :shock:

 

[CLAX1911]

Do you know anyone in the LGBT community at Weselayan or how they feel about it? Maybe how it started? My guess is you regard the whole thing the way the bloggers who write about it do

Lighten up a little, not everything is a war. I think one of the reasons for people holding out on accepting the "community" as part of the larger community is the shear amount of butthurt floating around.

It can be joked about, it's okay.

 

[TheGoverness]

Lighten up a little, not everything is a war. I think one of the reasons for people holding out on accepting the "community" as part of the larger community is the shear amount of butthurt floating around.

It can be joked about, it's okay.

Yeah, people need to take a massive chill pill. I'm cool with those kinds of jokes. Don't offend me at all.

 

[CLAX1911]

Yeah, people need to take a massive chill pill. I'm cool with those kinds of jokes. Don't offend me at all.

When I first came out, one of my closest friends, a manly guy as am I, said "Is the locker room like a cabaret for you?" Which my response was to busy out laughing, but his way of telling me it's okay was to make jokes at my expense. To this day he answers the phone "hey homo." He was glad I wasn't uptight adout it.