What is the documented percentage of homosexuals in the USA population and what is the information source?
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I don't think they'd be documented ... it's not like they have to register lol
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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.
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African American communities are being ravaged and attacked by an epidemic of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). At issue is our lifestyle. Although a number of AIDS cases can be attributed to Injection Drug Use (IDU), too many of us – whether gay, straight, male or female – continue to have unprotected sex with multiple partners or people we barely know.\n\nThe AIDS rate among Black women is three times as high as that among Latino women and 18 times as high as that among White women. Today Black women make up more than half of all women who have died of AIDS.\n\nAfrican Americans make up 13 percent of the population, yet we now account for 41 percent of all AIDS cases in the United States. The Harvard AIDS Institute estimates that in the year 2000 more than half of all our country’s AIDS cases will be within the African American community.
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Probably between 6-8 percent, just like the general population. I don't know where you got the 1% from, but it's wrong.
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1.  The arguments against Kinsey are bogus.  Created by religious extremists, they are based around questions that, if they had been valid would have been raised in peer reviewed in the 1950s.  That is what peer review is for, and trust me, when your colleagues in a given academic discipline are against your research to start with (which they were) it is vicious\n\n2.  There are two methods of looking at the idea of preference.  \n\na.  Statistically.  The easiest and hugest sample taken in recent times would be the political stats in 2000.  LGB (not T) persons who would admit to pollsters in many different locations that they were LGB were noted as such so that they could track our voting patterns.  5% of voters said that they were LGB to the pollsters.  Presuming average or even 10% above average turnout among homosexuals -- the idea of less than 1% is obviously laughable.  A created statistic from places like the Family Research Council and such I suppose.  \n\nSo, is it 10%?  Well, we can prove 5% pretty reliably above.  Do you honestly think, for an instant, that half of gays and lesbians in the US aren't hidden?  I don't.  I know far more closeted gays than I do out-gays.  With that in mind, is it at least 10%? -- Well, from a purely rational perspective, yes.\n\nb.  Anecdotal -- in all groups I have ever been involved in (my grade in my school, the two following grades, hobby organizations and, yes, faith groups) it has always been about 10%, sometimes a little less (it was only about 8% in my graduating class from H/S); sometimes a little more (it was 14% in the class after mine) -- but always around 10%.\n\nNote:  And those two routes don't mention the over 30 supporting studies done over 30 years -- that support a 10% average.  (if you want exact citations, send me email, and I'll get you a list from a colleague who is actually in the field -- I'm not in the field, I've just read some of it over the years.)\n\nIn fact, only 1 study of which I am aware   has ever demonstrated a number under 5%, and that study was funded entirely out of the Christian Right -- additionally, remember me mentioning peer review?  Well  one of the things that came out in peer review was that the study authors were told in advance what their conclusions should be -- the epitome of what NOT to do in scholarly work.\n\nIt would be convenient for the extremists on the Right of the faith community if they could legitimately claim that only 1% of people were gay; and so they will fund bogus research and make outrageous claims and accusations against Kinsey and Hite and Masters and Johnson and so forth in an ongoing attempt to create a false paradigm that will be accepted by the public.  If they could get that accepted it would be easier for them to marginalize that supposed 1%, even if it was 20%.  Reality does not matter, only perception -- and they fully understand that.  How else push as divinely inspired truth a book that says the earth has corners, sits on pillars and has, among its creatures, beetles and grasshoppers with 4 legs?  How else to push the myth of the "born again" movement, which is based on scriptures, which even within Judaism, have other, clear meanings -- but meanings that no one who doesn't bother to go through and study the ancient theology are likely to figure out?\n\nIf you have not read Kinsey for yourself, do so.  Read the supporting studies -- if you are not in an Institution with a large and varied library, contact me at my email address below, I may be able to get you copies of at least some of the studies -- and I am happy to work with you to help you further your understanding.\n\nHave a wonderful day.\n\nRegards,\n\nReynolds Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org\nbelieveinyou24@yahoo.com\n\nPS Several notations on your post statements.\n\n1.  A well constructed survey does NOT require hundreds of thousands of participants, the 18000 participants engaged by the Kinsey
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No, it is not true.  There are people from both parties that do not believe in the gay life style.  However, there are more Republicans who do not believe in it, because Republicans tend to be more conservative and traditional in what they believe.
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The American Psychological Association page on homosexuality (link below) may be a good place to start.  There are more links at the bottom of the page.
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I believe the statistic is something like 50% (I could be wrong on that) of Americans are on some type of psychtropic drug. They also say if everyone around you is nuts, take a hard look at yourself.
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Just curious: If I gave you two studies without showing you who did them, would you be able to distinguish the "pseudo-religious studies that don't pass statistical muster" from the ones you claim you'd consider valid?\n\nPersonally, I think there's a lot of political baggage that is clouding the issue for both pro-gay and anti-gay people. The only way to sort through it is to be able to review both sides and take each study on its own merits.\n\nAs a generalization, I know that Dean Hamer and Simon LeVay (?), both probably the most famous homosexuals with research credentials, have both gone on record stating that psychosocial factors are partly involved and that at least half of the condition is not inherited. \n\nAnd they were never able to concretely locate a root biological source, although they found some interesting (but small) anomolies in brain structure that might or might not have bearing on homosexuality.\n\nJust the fact that there's a higher incidence of homosexuality in identical twins -- but only about 50% -- suggests that there are both biological AND environment/social components... which is what I certainly would expect.\n\nI'm not sure why people keep insisting that everything is genetic... and why that should either validate/invalidate the orientation. \n\nPeople seem more interested in justifying their political/religious viewpoint (either direction) rather than actually understanding the cause(s) of homosexuality.
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Yes, probably the same percentage of the blind are gay as among the population at large.\n\nIf you had been looking online under "blind" you might want to try "sight impaired" instead, there you'll find information.
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Try to find information you are looking for in this article:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500824/United_States_(People).html#p9\nIt has many facts about US population.
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Yes. The ARIS study of 2001 shows that the percentage of Christians in the U.S. has dropped approximately .9% every year since 1991. At that rate, the current percentage of U.S. should be about 73% of the population.
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I remember something about this from my sociology classes.  It's actually about the same everywhere, at least from what can be told from research that HAS been done.  Each time that researchers have surveyed people (of each sex, from whatever background, from any country, any religion, rural/urban, etc.)--- when the people were told and it was made VERY CLEAR that everything was confidential--- the results were about the same:  4%-5% of those responding identified themselves as homosexual and/or bisexual.\n\nResults from surveys that were NOT confidential were predictably very different.  Numbers were higher in urban and western areas, simply because homosexuality is more openly accepted in those places.  But give the people anonymity, and it seems to even out...
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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.
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In the US, homosexuals are, on average, more intelligent than heterosexuals.  This translates into higher median incomes.  Also, most homosexuals do not have families to support; they are generally single.
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http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#hivest\n\nRun some math and you will find out that roughly 2.9% of homosexuals in the US have HIV. (1 out of 34)\n\nWhere about .044 - .058% of heterosexuals do. (1 out of 2272 or 1724)\n\nIf UNPROTECTED you are living a risky lifestyle.\n\nExposure Category Estimated # of AIDS Cases, Through 2004* \nMale-to-male sexual contact 441,380\nMale heterosexual contact 59,939    \n\nhomosexual males in us? 5% = 15,000,000\nheterosexual males in us? the rest = 135,000,000
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according to chile's 2002 census data, which provides the most recent data available, 69.96% are catholics; 15.14% are evangelics; 1.06% are jehovas whitnesses; 0.13% are jews; 0.92 are mormons; 0.03 are muslims; 0.06 are orthodox; 8.3% are either aetheists or agnostic; and 4.39% have some other religion or creed.