A new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 per cent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.a The findings were based on interviews with more than 121,000 people. Gallup said it is the largest study ever aimed at calculating the LGBT population. The report's lead author, demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, said he hoped the findings would help puncture some stereotypes about gays and lesbians. "Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy," he said. "But this data reveal that relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of nonwhite people and clearly is not overly wealthy." According to the survey, which was conducted between June and September, 4.6 per cent of African-Americans identify as LGBT, four per cent of Hispanics, 4.3 per cent of Asians and 3.2 per cent of whites. Overall, a third of those identifying as LGBT are non-white, the report said. Read more here
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First published: Sunday, 21st October 2012 - 12:54pm