Gen Z leads LGBT shift

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Generation Z is breaking with binary notions of gender and sexuality. And, how the first season of “The Bachelor” to feature a Black man has only highlighted the show’s racism problem.

Recent surveys show that a growing percentage of the U.S. population identifies as LGBT. What’s less clear is why. Is it because of a real shift in sexual orientation and gender identity? Or is it because of a greater willingness among young people to identify as LGBT? Samantha Schmidt reports.

The “Bachelor” franchise is facing a public reckoning after revelations about a contestant’s racist past. Style reporter Emily Yahr and Vulture writer Ali Barthwell explain what happened, and what this episode can tell us about Bachelor Nation and reality television as a whole.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:09.4	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.9	Hi, this is Elahi Azari with the Washington Post.
0:14.1	This is Post Reports.
0:15.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.8	It's Tuesday, March 2nd.
0:23.5	Today, my more people than ever identify as LGBT, plus trouble on the bachelor and
0:31.2	why it matters.
0:37.0	I'm constantly wondering what the size of the LGBT population is.
0:44.4	In a lot of my reporting, I get asked, you know, who would this apply to?
0:48.8	How big of a population are we talking about and how do they identify?
0:52.8	And that's always been a tricky question to answer, because there's really a huge lack
0:57.6	of data on the LGBTQ population as a whole.
1:01.4	That's the mantishment.
1:02.5	She covers gender and family issues for the post.
1:05.4	And last week, those questions that she gets asked all the time got a little bit easier
1:10.3	to answer.
1:11.7	There was this big Gallup survey that was released recently that showed a huge increase
1:18.5	in the number of Americans who identify as LGBT.
1:23.0	They've asked this question before on surveys, and we've been able to say generally how
1:28.1	many people identify as LGBT in the US.
1:31.4	But we haven't had a very detailed breakdown on what that means and more specific identifiers
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