LGBT Percentage Highest in Washington, DC, Lowest in North Dakota
Gallop has released the largest study of its kind breaking down LGBT identifying persons by state. The poll asked "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?" All states are within two percentage points of the overall national average of 3.5%, New York is slightly higher at 3.8%.
Gallop notes
Gallop has released the largest study of its kind breaking down LGBT identifying persons by state. The poll asked "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?" All states are within two percentage points of the overall national average of 3.5%, New York is slightly higher at 3.8%.
Gallop notes
As was outlined in the first report of these data in October, measuring sexual orientation and gender identity can be challenging because these concepts involve complex social and cultural patterns. There are a number of ways to measure lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientation, and transgender status. Gallup chose a broad measure of personal identification as LGBT because this grouping of four statuses is commonly used in current American discourse, and as a result has important cultural and political significance. One limitation of this approach is that it is not possible to separately consider differences among lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgender individuals. A second limitation is that this approach measures broad self-identity, and does not measure sexual or other behavior, either past or present.
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