A recent Gallup poll has concluded that the number of adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has risen considerably over the past decade, and even the past two years. The last time a poll tallied up the number of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, or generally non-heterosexual American adults was in 2012, and this most recent study finds numbers to have doubled.
Gallup collects their information via U.S. telephone surveys, and those who agree to participate are free to offer up anything they like in terms of sexual or non-sexual identification. Gallup came away from their poll with data indicating that 7.1% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+, 86.3% identify as heterosexual, and 6.6% didn't offer a preference one way or the other.
