Study: In the last 10 years, the US has doubled the number of LGBTQ persons

The percentage of U.S. adults identified as something other than heterosexuals has doubled over the past 10 years, from 3.5 per cent in 2012, to 7.1 per cent, according to a survey by the management company, Gallup.

Gallup found that the increase is due to high self-identification LGBT, especially as bisexual, among the adults of Geneva Z, who are 18 to 25.

The survey asked more than 12,000 American adults how they identified themselves during phone interviews last year. It has been found that younger American adults are more likely to identify themselves as LGBTQ than older generations.

More than 1 in 5 or 21 percent of Geneva's adults are identified as LGBTQ. This is almost double the proportion of the million generation, which are between the ages of 26 and 41, by 10.5 percent, and almost five times the ratio of the X generation, which is 42 to 57, by 4.2 percent. Fewer than 3 percent of adults, who are 58 to 76, are identified as LGBTQ, compared to only 0.5 percent of traditionals, who are 77 years old and older.

While younger Americans slowly exceed the number and replace the billion, Gallup predicts that the number of adults identified as LGBTQ will only increase and will likely grow at a much faster pace than previous generations.

The survey found that the percentage of the X generation identified as the queer has remained relatively similar over the years. More and more generations have been identified more and more as LGBTQ, but only a few, with 5.8 per cent in 2012, 7.8 per cent in 2017 and 10.5 per cent now.

But the survey noted that the percentage of the generation Z adults that have been queer has almost doubled since 2017 ʹ, rising from 10.5 per cent in 2017 to 20.8 per cent. The increase shows that younger Zs, who have been 18 years old since 2017, are more likely than older Zs to be identified as queer.

Gallup noted that the new generation Z.C.E., who are 10 years old, are even more likely to be identified as LGBTQ in the future, writes NBC, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

If the X generation trend and Z more and more identified as LGBTQ continues, the proportion of LGBT Americans must exceed 10 percent in the near future, according to Gallup.

Bisexuality is the most common identification used among LGBTQ Americans, which is in line with a Gallup report published last year. More than half of LGBTQ, by 57 percent, are bisexual.

Over a fifth of those surveyed LGBTQ, or 21 per cent, are gay, 14 per cent are lesbians, 10 per cent are transgenders and 4 per cent are identified as something else.

Overall, 4 percent of U.S. adults are identified as bisexuals, compared with 1 percent identified as lesbians, 1.5 percent as homosexuals, 0.7 percent as transgenders, and 0.3 percent as others. Heterosexuals accounted for 86.3 per cent of the total respondents, and 6.6 per cent did not give an opinion.

Gallup notes that the percentage of American generation Z identified as LGBTQ is growing at a faster pace than previous generations, and that they are growing at a time when 70 per cent of Americans support same-gender marriage rights, and a majority also support non-discrimination and protection for LGBTQ persons.