About 10 percent of adults now identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual in 2024, an increase that has almost doubled since 2020 from 5.6 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
The uptick is mostly brought on by young adults part of Generation Z with more than one in five adults born between 1997 and 2006 identifying as LGBTQ+. Older generations, including Millenials, have lower rates of identification.
