Does the percentage of gays to straight ratio change from country to country?
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I have heard too that it is 10% across the board no matter where on earth. A pretty standard anomoly in the human population. \n\nNow the OUT and homosexual is different. In jamaica its 10 years hard labor if caught homosexually. In the middle east they'll chop off a hand. In Native American cultures we were referred as 2 Spirits referred to as some gender blur ideal. \n\nSocrates, Michaelangelo, Lincoln, joan of arc were some examples of people strongly beleived to be queer or dabbled excessively in history.
767875
Kinsey Reports had 10% of men and an average of 4% women being homosexual.\nA 1990 study had 13.95% of men and 4.25% of women being homosexual.\nA 1993 study had 9% of men and 5% being homosexual.\n\nJudging by the similarities of these studies, it appears that gay men outnumber lesbians by 2 to 1.
662395
No, the spread in the US was traced to a bisexual Canadian airline attendant who made frequent trips to the bath houses in San Francisco.  According to the World Health Org.
901166
Foolishness aside from those who have an axe to grind.  Most REAL experts say its between 5-10% of the adult population.  The amount who are openly gay is smaller.  \n\nUS Census says that 1-2% of households are  single sex couples/ gay partners.  But that is only a count of those that are open and "coupled/partnered"
186693
I would suggest most countries are conservative when it comes to homosexuality, with the exception of your most liberal democracies like Spain, Holland, Canada and so on.
50553
Yes, I think so because many people just are in closet! Therefore, statistics are untrue or refer to the people that have claimed their position openly. But in my opinion there are a lot of other gay or bi people in the world around!
302363
What Ipersonally believe is, we were raised in a country where stuff like that should not happen. Also what part of the nation,many years ago a gay person would of been killed. thats why gays stayed in the closets.  now, the gays tend to get more noticed and more rights are for them and us straight folk just don't get it. please whomever is reading this dont report me AGAIN because since I do live in america I do have the right to speak what is on my mind , just like everybody else in U S A has the right to do.
208249
The same as us heterosexuals.. Not that we all fell the same all the time either. They're not different from heterosexuals in any other way than that they are attracted to people of the same sex. That is the only difference. Maybe you should specify your question, or get some gay friends :)
1025711
I played with GI Joe when I was growing up but so did my best friend and He is as straight as an arrow . Nothing can make you gay you are born gay . Sexual orientation is determined before birth and no one  can choose to be gay or straight . Nothing can make them gay or straight .  A straight man can't decide he is gay and change his attraction for women and a gay man can't decide he is straight and  change his attraction for men .
122608
This question cannot be answered reliably.  Relationships happen and end every day--so there is no reliable statistic.  Also, since most people who engage in gay relationship continue to be closeted--again there is no reliable statistic available.
933813
I have no hard facts, but i seem to think the chance is about 50/50. I know of more then one family with more then one gay child.\n\nI also know of boy/girl twins, one is a lesbian and the other is gay.
865146
Not sure of the actual percentages since I don't know what country you are asking about. But check your government statistics/census pages. I have listed a couple US ones below.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/\nhttp://www.fedstats.gov/
920836
Yes you can and it is recognized through out the country.Go Canada!I'm Canadian and follow the news and politics everyday and I'm totally thrilled that gay couples can finally take that next step.So all the Gay people reading this move to Canada we are very open minded here.
841165
You'll never find such a study, as the nature of subject is "stealthy"   Large percentages of lgbt live closeted to some extent.  \n\nMost studies of gays also do not get funding from traditional sources because the subject matter makes those funding nervous.  Hence the study of biological influences on homosexuality moves at snail pace because disproving that it is a choice or something acquired from the environment upsets too many apple carts, even in more progressive countries.\n\nOooooh that was a long, no answer, huh?
240352
most of america (80% lol) and the 5% of all other countrys :P
203871
In some countries yes.
401009
This is an enormously complex and divisive question.  In the LGBT community, the traditional wisdom is that it is 10% of the population.  There are some studies out there that support this number, others that say as high as 16% (a lot depends, by the way, on how you define "bisexual," particularly in women), and some other studies say as low as 2%.  In 2000, the last Census year before the current anti-Gay hysteria took over the Federal government, there was a lot of pressure to use the Census to begin to figure out just how many self-identified LGBT people there were in America, but the political backlash from the predictable Christian Right crowd stifled that.  Still, the census does reveal an astonishingly high number of people who are "heads of households" with biologically unrelated adults of the same gender in their home, so figure it out for yourself.