1.5% of Britons say they are gay or bisexual, ONS survey finds

Source: The Guardian

Nearly three-quarters of a million adults in Britain say they are gay or bisexual, according to figures published for the first time today by the Office of National Statistics.

The findings, based on interviews with more than 450,000 people – the biggest pool of social data after the census – show that an estimated 481,000 people regard themselves as gay and a further 245,000 – mainly women – say they are bisexual.

The estimate puts Britain's gay community at 1.5% of the total population – much lower than the most commonly used estimate of 5% to 7%, which was cited by ministers introducing civil partnership legislation and implied a non-heterosexual population of 3.5 million.

The ONS said the higher estimate was based on different sampling methods and responses to questions about sexual attraction and behaviour both in the past and present.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/gay-bisexual-population-uk

95% of Britons say they like to dress in drag.

:evilgrin:

used against them. ha

My left foot if there's less than 3% Gay or bisexual people on that giant island! The problem is that the government office of National Statistics was the one asking the questions! I don't know how I would have answered under B*sh regime to such a question.

to keep homosexuals and bi-sexuals in the closet --

According to Kinsey, it is hetereosexuals and homosexuals who are at the extreme ends

and everyone in the middle is to some degree bi-sexual --

The educational difference suggests that there may be a cultural identification issue here.