1.5% of the UK?
In its 'Integrated Household Survey', the Office for National Statistics asks 178,197 people about their sexual identity - and the vast majority of them choose to answer.
93.5% of people said they were 'heterosexual' or 'straight', just 1.1% said they were 'gay' or 'lesbian' and 0.4% said they were bisexual. The small fraction that was left either refused to answer or said they didn't know. Altogether, amounts to about 545,000 homosexual and 220,000 bisexual adults in the UK.
The claim that just 1.5% of people in Britain are gay, lesbian or bisexual will come as a surprise to some - even perhaps those in government. When they were analysing the financial implications of the new Civil Partnerships Act, the Treasury had estimated it was 6%. Stonewall, a gay rights charity reckon that 5-7% "is a reasonable estimate". The Guardian.
BUT self-identification is wholly valid - apparently! What about all the transgender folk who are 100% one sex or another but claim - against all the evidence - to be the opposite?
Ergo, the 1.5% MUST be right using the LGBT's very own criteria!
What is more - there was a stampede to civil partnerships which happened all in a rush, ergo, 5 - 7% is calculatedly unrealistic and besides, it contradicts the 1.6% of The Welcome Trust survey a generation ago but is in line with the Integrated Household Survey above.
What is more, Kinsey was a fraud! The evidence is convincing.
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