New poll finds 9% of US adults identify as LGBTQ+ — nearly triple the amount recorded in 2012
Based on data collected via 2025 telephone interviews with more than 13,000 U.S. adults, Gallup estimates that 9% of Americans self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or another non-heterosexual identity.
"The vast majority, 86%, say they are heterosexual, while 9% identify with one of the various LGBTQ+ identities and 5% do not give a response," Gallup noted in releasing the poll results on Monday.
The figure was slightly less than the 9.3% for 2024, but nearly triple the 3.5% who identified as LGBT in 2012, according to the company.
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LGBTQ+ identities are more prevalent in young adults, women and Democrats, the data indicates.
While a whopping 23% of U.S. adults ages 18-29 identify as LGBTQ+, that number drops precipitously for higher age groups, falling to 10.4% among those 30-49-years-old, 3.1% among those ages 50-64 and 2.3% for those 65+.
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While 10.5% of women identify as LGBTQ+, just 5.6% of men do, according to Gallup's 2025 telephone poll.
And while 14.2% of Democrats identify as LGBTQ+, only 1.9% of Republicans do, according to the poll.
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Bisexual, the most popular of the alternative identities, was chosen by more than half (58.6%) of those identifying as LGBTQ+, which amounts to 5.3% of U.S. adults, according to Gallup's poll.