It's Friday, March the 22nd, 2024.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Ryan Denison.

According to the latest poll from Gallup, more than one in five Gen Z adults in the U.S., people born between 1997 and 2012, now identify as

LGBTQ+, but while that number may seem high, it's right in line with the changes in sexuality

from generation to generation. The study found that people in each generation are roughly twice as

likely as the generation preceding it to identify as LGBTQ+.

If the trend continues, then nearly half of those who come after Gen Z will share a non-heterosexual identity.

What is more interesting than the overall statistics, however, is the breakdown of how they got there.

You see, the most common LGBTQ plus status among Gen Z, millennials, and Gen X is bisexual rather than homosexual.

That's a marked change from the older generations, where the two identities are roughly equal.

Moreover, Gen Z women are nearly three times as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ plus,

with more than two-thirds of them, affiliating with the B part of the acronym.

As such, while 4.4% of the adult population identifies as bisexual, it's a designation

claimed by 57.3% of the LGBTQ plus population. I bring all of this up today because when we hear

these statistics, it's easy to forget how much diversity exists within an acronym that encompasses essentially

every sexual orientation besides heterosexual individuals.

And that kind of binary distinction is intentional.

After all, adults who identify as lesbian, 1.2%, gay, 1.4%, or transgender, 9 tenths of a percent, remain a distinct minority

within the culture. And the same proportions are largely true of Gen Z as well where, despite

an LGBT-plus population nearly three times greater than the national average, only 3%, 2.6%, and 2.8% identify as

LG and T, respectively. And when you think about how LGBTQ normalization is often portrayed in the culture,

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