At 9:08 AM -0600 3/23/04, James Guinee wrote:
Hi,

Recently I participated in an internet discussion on
the true percentage of people in America (and to a lesser extent worldwide) who identify themselves as gay.


Granted there is no way of knowing, but it led to a discussion
about the most common figure * 10 percent * and if that is
accurate or not.

Some in the discussion claimed it was lower, some higher.

Does anyone have some recent, reliable data that gives
us a realistic picture?

The 10% number came from Kinsey; there were obvious selection bias issues.
The only question is how much lower the actual figure is.
I did a MedLine search a while ago and came up with numbers between 2 and 5% (don't remember the specifics).
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