A new poll from Gallup found that more than 9% of U.S. adults consider themselves LGBT in 2024.
Younger Americans are more likely than older generations to identify as “something other than heterosexual.”
Almost a third of Gen Z women (31%), compared to 12% of Gen Z men, identify as LGBT.
According to Gallup, more than one in five Gen Z adults consider themselves LGBT. “Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946,” Gallup said.
When Gallup first started recording the data in 2012, only 3.5% of American adults identified as LGBT.
Among the 14,000 U.S. adults interviewed through Gallup telephone surveys, 85.7% said they were straight, 5.2% reported being bisexual, 2.0% were gay, 1.4% were lesbian, and 1.3% were transgender. Among those who claim an LGBT identity, 56.3% identified as bisexual.
“[M]ore than half of Gen Z (59%) and millennial (52%) LGBTQ+ people are bisexual. That drops to 44% among LGBTQ+ people in Generation X, and is less than 20% among baby boomers (19%) and Silent Generation (11%) LGBTQ+ adults,” Gallup explained. “Older LGBTQ+ people are most likely to identify as gay or lesbian.”
Non-heterosexual identities were reported as being more common among those who reside in urban areas. College graduates and nongraduates were almost equally as likely to identify as LGBT.
Gallup’s 2023 data found that 7.6% of U.S. adults considered themselves as LGBT. Gallup noted at the time that “it is likely that the proportion of LGBTQ+ identifiers will exceed 10% of U.S. adults at some point within the next three decades.”
