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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth and Michael Goodier

Young people in England and Wales twice as likely to identify as LGB+

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The census taken on 21 March 2021 was the first to ask all people aged over 16 about their sexual and gender identity. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

Young people’s openness with sexuality has been revealed in unprecedented census data showing people aged 16 to 24 are more than twice as likely to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another minority sexual orientation (LGB+) than the overall population.

In Brighton and Hove, one of Britain’s longtime gay capitals, just under one in six 16- to 24-year-olds identify with a sexual identity other than straight – more than twice the England and Wales average of 6.9% for that age group.

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