Americans vastly overestimate the size of the LGBT population
In what is a testament to the marketing acumen of LGBT lobbyists and promoters, U.S. adults, on average, continue to believe that about 25% of the population is gay or lesbian, more than five times the actual number . Overall, a full 90% believe in an inflated number, with 54% of Americans estimating that gays and lesbians constitute more than 20% of the population, according to a June 17, 2019 Gallup poll . Only 8% of those polled come close to accurately estimating the LGBT population. Gallup Report, June 27, 2019 / Screenshot “Overestimations of the nation’s gay population may in part be due to the group’s outsized visibility,” suggests Gallup, citing a GLAAD report that found that 8.8% of primetime TV characters are LGBT. Overlooked Gallup Data Tell a Bigger, More Important Story This most recent Gallup report was issued one day after the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling which instituted s...