While doing a little research for my boyfriend I came across a couple of numbers that made that made me smile and think about how I’d like to share THESE numbers with all the “YES on Prop 8” people.
Based on a range of population samples in the past few years, the consensus opinion is that 6% to 7% of the adult U.S. population self-identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual. According to Witeck- Combs Communications, this number equates to about 15.3 million people in 2006,increasing to 16.3 million people in 2011.
Data from Census 2000 and reports published since then indicate that same-sex unmarried partners were present in 99.3% of all counties in the US.
This next part – I did not know. Very interesting.
The data also revealed that gay men do not necessarily choose to live in the same communities as their female counterparts and vice versa. State same-sex male- and female-couple concentration rankings share only five states—Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Vermont and Washington—between the respective top-10 lists.
Only San Francisco County appeared among the top 10 counties for both male and female couples.
Source: “Gay and Lesbian Internet Users – The GLBT Community,” eMarketer, October 2007
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