All this shows is more people are admitting it to pollsters. The percentages were identified decades ago, 1940 to be more precise:

"According to Alfred Kinsey's research, approximately 10% of men were considered "more or less exclusively homosexual" for at least three years of their adult lives, which is often cited as the "Kinsey scale" percentage for homosexuality; this figure is based on his studies that showed around 37% of men had at least one homosexual experience to ------."

Women's range is 1%-3%.

From a scientific perspective that is an invalid assumption, you can't draw any conclusions because the polls weren't meant to resolve this issue.

I didn't draw that conclusion from nowhere. I cited where I got my information, why I said what I said, gave a link to a great piece on the subject, and was all based that and what was the gold standard in sexual expression in 80 years, which I also referenced but did not cite. Do you need a citation for something that is, perhaps, the seminal study on this subject? The work is incredibly interesting.

It started out as ALLIES.
I remember that from the 80's. I remember it well. I remember PFLAG.

It was around 2015-2018 that it shifted.
Some militancy developed in the US.
There are *some* people that get their nose out of joint because "allies" aren't "them" so they can't be in "the group."
I've run into a couple of those types.

ChatGPT?
Jeezus.

Here's a great example of being wrong - and the historical and thoughtful rebuttal to it. Read the comments, and expand them (there's only one that matters and it's the longest. The rest are handclaps for it.

Notice you skipped the UC Davis part.

Didn't seem the least bit relevant to me. Is there something significant about that? You provided no context, no link. I don't much care given I lived through it all.

Allyship is after the LGBTQA+ part regardless of how many friends you have using it wrong.

Yeah - No. Wrong.
Don't need you telling me that me being gay and all my friends have been 'using it wrong'.
I've heard that from too many women that tried to get me to switch teams.

Lumping T in with LGB makes no sense IMO. T should be it's own separate category.

Your bigoted arrogance combined with your ignorance is stunning and a perfect summation of MAGA.

You don't get to decide for us.
This is OUR community.
You don't get to define who is an acceptable human.
You don't get to dictate our lived history.
You don't get to apply your beliefs on us.

Let me assume that you're doing this because you're ignorant and not ignorant and a bigot. Let me give you a little history lesson on why "T" is in the original LGBT(Q+): There was this thing that happened called The Stonewall Riots.

So stop telling US who WE should include and exclude and how to behave or anything else. You want to know why MAGA exists? It's because people like you never approved of us being treated fairly, having security from discrimination, to be able to live openly and authentically. You hate us for the progress we were able to make.

Google:
The+stonewall+riots+transgender

That's a separate issue to deal with, KWR.
I was addressing Bellringer. What you posted is a different point.

The fact that the MAGA strategy of dividing us against each other is working with some in your family doesn't change anything I said.
What you say is happening is an illustration of how fascism takes hold. The history on this is crystal clear.

$215 (at least) million spent on demonizing transgender in this last election. A tiny part of our population. Demonized. Made to be the enemy. MAGA made it unsafe to even speak about it in any other terms than theirs.

I'll give you it was wildly successful.
Evil to its core. Filled with lies.
But successful.

Just look at your family.

Yep. Arrogant, bigoted, and ignorant. Congrats on your tenacity to hold on to it.

#76 - That sounds British.

Yes. L is G. No need to create a sub-category.

LMAO!

Yep. Arrogant, bigoted, and ignorant. Keep proving it!

You're an ignorant, reductionist, moron.
Done.

cis het individuals

Some of those. Those shhtheaps called "MAGA" (I'm going to define them as MAGAA for their "allies) want us all to have the same freedumb they have - in fact they demand it. The freedumb to marry a person of the opposite and clearly defined at birth sex. Period. The freedumb to use terms they define for us. The freedumb to read the books they approve. The freedumb to have medical care they approve of. The freedumb to be all we can be as long as it's what they say is OK.

Let me repeat for Bellringer, specifically: So stop telling US who WE should include and exclude and how to behave or anything else. You want to know why MAGA exists? It's because people like you never approved of us being treated fairly, having security from discrimination, to be able to live openly and authentically. You hate us for the progress we were able to make.

Define fight? When is the war over? Have there ever been mass casualties committed by whomever they're fighting with?

Your "lots of gays and lesbians" can thank us for that. We fought tooth and nail to be able to live without hiding. To be protected from being fired if someone found out we were gay or lesbian. We marched, we protested, we fought police brutality and abuse. The war was feeling like it was over when we finally got marriage rights, but now? Now that's over. The war is back on.

Start with the easiest, the most perceived negatively. The first salvo was against the transgender. A tried and true tactic of fascists and authoritarians. Attack and demonize a target. Expand the list of targets. Divide the population against itself.

Today Florida announced it is suing Target for allowing PRIDE clothing in their store during PRIDE week. They are suing for "indoctrination of children" and for "causing a loss to the retirement fund portfolio" (yep, they invested and owned Target stock and it lost money because the GOP targeted Target over this, so they're suing Target).

BTW - it was a CRIMINAL OFFENSE for men to wear makeup or do dress in women's clothing - well into the '80s.
It was ILLEGAL for two men to rent a one bedroom apartment.
There was the "Johns Committee" in Florida which was state funded terrorism against homosexuals. You were denied legal counsel if you were caught up in that mess. Not to mention forced into mental institutions. There was the "purple pamphlet" and then that spawn of satan - Anita Byrant. That woman was evil.

It wasn't until 2003 that it finally was legal to be gay in Florida. That was forced on the State by the Supreme Court's ruling.

But lest we forget - and speaking of war - there was a very real gay holocaust, too. Pink triangles to identify the homosexuals in concentration and death camps, where thousands of us perished.

This is why the gay community and the Jewish community have had a warm relationship with each other.

History repeats if you're not paying attention. We have to pay attention.

Were you paying attention when you voted for Joe Biden? He fought gay marriage more than anyone on right did.

I paid a great deal of attention, tiny human.