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Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
Your citation of 10% of the population being homosexual is based on a 1948 Kinsey study which estimated that up 10% of the male population could be homosexual.
Recent studies and surveys show a drastic difference between the assumptions from nearly 70 years ago.
Please get with the times and stop pushing such an outdated ideology.
There's also the matter of Gallup itself and whether any survey can accurately measure this particular statistic. Asking people to honestly self-identify with anything isn't never easy, and identity is something a lot of young people still struggle to answer to themselves, let alone a Gallup call center employee. Of course, that's a methodology issue that no census could solve, so any attempt to measure the population this way is going to be imperfect.
reply to post by markosity1973
To us in the gay community it does not matter if we are 1% or 20%
Originally posted by dusty1
reply to post by markosity1973
To us in the gay community it does not matter if we are 1% or 20%
You are the One Percent.
I guess I am. But one percent does not seem so small when most of your friends are also gay and lesbian couples too. Remember, 1% of 313 million is still 3.1 million gay people in relationships. That's almost 3 x the population of the city I live in. So it's not such an insignificant number after all.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by markosity1973
There is no quantifiable data out there as most countries do not recognize same sex marriage. You'll have to give it 10-20 years first...then you can post the data as relevant or not.
Although the most recent data are from 2000, Green says it allowed for a direct comparison because the questions posed were the same used in 1975.
The percentage of heterosexual men who reported having sex with someone other than their wife dropped to 10% in 2000 from 28% in 1975; among married women, it declined to 14% from 23%. Among gay men, the percentage who cheated on a partner they lived with dropped to 59% from 83%; for lesbians it declined to 8% from 28%. Half the gays and lesbians in the study were in civil unions, half were living together in committed relationships, the researchers say.
Originally posted by dusty1
reply to post by markosity1973
I guess I am. But one percent does not seem so small when most of your friends are also gay and lesbian couples too. Remember, 1% of 313 million is still 3.1 million gay people in relationships. That's almost 3 x the population of the city I live in. So it's not such an insignificant number after all.
So your group, is like every other elite group that dominates this society.
Insulated.
Originally posted by halfoldman
An absolutely fantastic clip OP.
I'm going to add it immediately to my thread on Gay Pride Parades around the world, and sharing ideas and identities.
www.abovetopsecret.com...&addstar=1&on=16453655#pid16453655
Thanks for sharing.