{"id":49285,"date":"2017-01-17T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:25:32","slug":"good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Good work, people! America just got even gayer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Good work, people! America just got even gayer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/whats-best-thing-married-20160717\/married-couple-kiss\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-421186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/\/2016\/07\/married-couple-kiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/\/2016\/07\/married-couple-kiss.jpg 655w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/\/2016\/07\/married-couple-kiss-360x261.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, everyone: America is gayer than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/201731\/lgbt-identification-rises.aspx?g_source=Social%20Issues&#038;g_medium=newsfeed&#038;g_campaign=tiles\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup<\/a> shows that more Americans than ever before identify as LGBTQ. The\u00a0polling group surveyed\u00a0more than\u00a01.6 million people, and used the\u00a0findings to extrapolate that 10 million adults now claim the acronym. It\u2019s about 4.1% of the population, up from 3.5% in 2012. Not surprisingly, those numbers are strongest among people who are not religious. Women are also more likely to self-identify\u00a0than <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, among whom antigay stigma is stronger.<\/p>\n<p>From these numbers, we can extrapolate the percentage of the population will only swell as organized religion continues to diminish as a role in American life and masculinity and heterosexuality continue their decoupling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/poll-americans-think-this-country-is-lousy-with-gays-20150522\">Millennials are credited for for the increase<\/a>. They\u2019re far more comfortable identifying with orientations other than straight than previous generations. Though when they choose a label, it\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/young-people-more-likely-identify-bisexual-gay-lesbian-office-national-statistics-a7347701.html\" target=\"_blank\"> often B<\/a>\u00a0rather than L or G.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7.3% of millennials are queer in some way, compared to 3.2% among Generation X and 2.4% of baby boomers. It\u2019s unlikely this age group\u00a0are any more likely to be LGBTQ; they are\u00a0just more open about it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=D7tCUueYvUw:yE7n206RbDw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=D7tCUueYvUw:yE7n206RbDw:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer-20170117?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer-20170117?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good work, people! America just got even gayer. \u00a0 Congratulations, everyone: America is gayer than ever before. A new study by Gallup shows that more Americans than ever before identify as LGBTQ. The\u00a0polling group surveyed\u00a0more than\u00a01.6 million people, and used the\u00a0findings to extrapolate that 10 million adults now claim the acronym. It\u2019s about 4.1% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/good-work-people-america-just-got-even-gayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good work, people! 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