Terrapin
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yes. That statistic assumes its all people. So with 100 people, you have 50 men and 50 women, so probably 2 LGBTQ men and 2 LGBTQ women. But if you have a room of 100 men, you've double the number of men, so you probably have 4 LGBTQ men.
Ok, that makes sense. Now I remembered why i hated statistics. Im still not sure how that's correct when we know there are more gays than trans. We're lumping everyone into the LBGT category, but it can't be accurate that a man is a lesbian. I don't know, nor care to know what the hell Q is.
So according to this, 1.6 Americans identify as gay or lesbian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States
In the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation, the NHIS reported in July 2014 that 1.6 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent identify as bisexual.[1] In a Williams Institute review based on an June–September 2012 Gallup poll, approximately 3.4 percent of American adults identify themselves as being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender).[2] An earlier report published in April 2011 by the Williams Institute estimated that 3.8 percent of Americans identified as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender: 1.7 percent as lesbian or gay, 1.8 percent as bisexual, and 0.3 percent as transgender