Health survey gives
government its first large-scale data on gay, bisexual population
Washington Post – Sandhya Somashekhar – 7/15/2014
Less than 3 percent of
the U.S.
population identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday in the first large-scale
government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation.
The National
Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for
annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent
of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves
bisexual.
The overwhelming majority of
adults, 96.6 percent, labeled themselves as straight in the 2013 survey.
An additional 1.1 percent declined to answer, responded “I don’t know the
answer” or said they were “something else.”
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