Newsweek - The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has skyrocketed in recent years, but there's one group that's been driving the uptick. Younger bisexual women were largely behind the increase, with 9.3 percent of today's U.S. adults now identifying as LGBTQ+. Gen Z has had an increasingly different relationship with sexuality than their elders.
According to a recent PRRI report, nearly 30 percent of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ+. That's a high figure when you take into account Baby Boomers only identified as LGBTQ+ 4 percent of the time. Even compared to millennials, Gen Z is a notably more sexually fluid generation, as millennials only identified as LGBTQ+ 16 percent of the time.
The Gallup survey has tracked LGBTQ+ identification for 12 years, and the rates of adults identifying with the community has nearly tripled in that time. While today's young adults are more likely to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, the most notable increase driving the shift is due to more primarily young women identifying as bisexual.
In 2024, 9.3 percent of U.S. adults identified as LGBTQ+, making an increase of more than a percentage point from 2023. Since 2020, the figure has nearly doubled and is up from 3.5 percent in 2012. More
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