Report: Half of LGBTQ Americans Are Attracted to More Than One Gender

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by Kate Sosin
January 23, 2020

Only half of LGBTQ Americans identify as lesbian or gay, while the rest of the spectrum shows interest in more than one gender, according to new research from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

Some 41% of LGBTQ adults identify as bisexual, 6% describe themselves as queer, and 7% use another label such as “pansexual.”

The study examined “queer” identity across 1,518 respondents between the ages of 18 and 59 surveyed in 2016 and 2017. The report sheds new light on the term, which some still consider a slur. The Institute reports that this is the first national research done on queer Americans as an identity group.

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