Approximately what percentage of college students are gay?
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Maybe 3-5%; the same as in the general population. But it does depend on how one defines "gay." And it's not constant in every population of students. Some colleges with a history of tolerance and acceptance of gay and lesbian students would probably attract more gay students; those with a reputation for conservatism might attract fewer. Those proportions would be changing depending upon the students' own evolving self-identification and behavior.\n\nI don't know whether more people who are gay go to college. If so, then the percentage of gay men and women in college could be slightly higher than that of the general population in that age group.\n\n[After reading some of the other responses, with very high estimates, I looked around and found the article below.]
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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"
834919
Probably between 6-8 percent, just like the general population. I don't know where you got the 1% from, but it's wrong.
392446
According to October 2004 US Census numbers for\nStudents 15 Years Old and Over, Enrolled for College\nthere were:\n17,383,000 college students in the USA at that time.
300911
1 in 10 people are gay, if the statistics are to be believed, so if there is more than 10 people where you work.... chances are you aren't just talking to heterosexual people!
196562
Did you know that for every older brother a guy has, his chance of being gay increase by 25%? So, if you have 4 older brothers, your chance of being gay is 100%!! Strange enough for ya?
699161
In highschool I only knew 3 gay guys. Now that we have graduated over 10 guys have come out...
54712
Actually there is just a little bit less than half. 42% of guys are good guys. <- Proven fact.
818308
only 50 percent of all students graduate. \n6 percent go on to attend college. \nSix out of 10 male students end up jobless, \n80 percent wind up in jail
571022
I agree with each and every one of these answers and could only plagiarism any of them to answer your question.  So my answer is that there are plenty, with more coming and about 57% are female and 50% are male and 3% are what is called "gender queer."  :)
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There is no way of knowing, especially when most gay people are secretive about it. But if I had to take a guess................ I would say 20-10% percent, and that is especially including San Francisco. That is also including bi-sexuals.
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Ten percent is probably a huge exaggeration, though it somehow became the standard figure for a while. This may date back to the 1950s, when Alfred Kinsey published his books about sexuality. Because many people who didn't identify as homosexual had had homosexual experiences nonetheless, some people read these data and concluded exclusive homosexuality was much more common than it probably is.\n\nThere are SO many variables involved in determining the underlying conditions behind your very good question. Gender identity is so fluid and flexible that people don't always fit easily into categories "homosexual," "heterosexual," "bisexual," and the like. \n\nAnother complication is that, although you ask the question very broadly, a given percentage of any specific population - a self-selected or self-identified one, for example = won't necessarily have a constant statistical proportion of people of any given sexuality represented within it. And variables that may not seem to correlate at all with sexual behavior of the members of a group may be better determinants of what those people identify themselves as. \n\nIn some cultures, the concept of "gay" or "homosexual" in the Western European & American senses of those terms don't really exist. Other social constructions of same-sex relationships under different conditions, with rituals, subdialects, and patterns of secrecy exist that it would be unfair to characterize in the same terms that we use in the West.\n\nSo, I haven't given you a percentage, but I hope this helps a little.\n\nBy the way, I'm about 90% gay myself. The other ten percent vacillates between being curious and being sleepy.
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The Kinsey Reports of 1948 and 1953 stated 37% of males and 13% of females had homosexual experiences, but this includes incidental homosexual experience. The study reported 10% of males being more or less exclusively homosexual and 2% to 6% of females being more or less exclusively homosexual.\nA 1990 study (Homosexuality/Heterosexuality by McWhirter, Sanders, and Reinisch) stated 13.95% of males and 4.25% of females had "extensive" or "more than incidental" homosexual experience.\nA 1993 study (The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior) found 9% of men and 5% of women were involved in frequent or ongoing homosexual experiences, but only 4% of men and 2% of women called themselves homosexual. This difference can be attributed as those who were 'out' and those who were 'closeted'.\n\nIt appears that the number of male homosexuals is approximately 10% and the number of female homosexuals is approximately 4%. It also appears that only half of those who are truly homosexual are "out".
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75-80% of Americans are against gay marriage.  Every time it is put on a ballot, gay marriage is defeated.
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Not sure about the percent that suffer from alcoholism, but I know that 85-90% of college students drink.
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Without an actual poll being conducted, there's no way to say what percentage of people were born gay as opposed to .... choosing? it.  Just to put your statistic in perspective.\n\nThey've been taken out of the gene pool....wrong.  If by that you mean that they can't have kids, that's not true.\n\nThey don't have the desire to procreate...wrong.  I don't have that desire, in fact I find it abhorrent.  But I'm not gay.\n\nWho cares if it's abhorrent to us?  And of course they CHOOSE to do it, just the same as we choose to do what we do sexually.
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In terms of what?  The first thing that comes to my mind is that 10% (or 1 in 10) people are gay.