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 Posted: 18:48 - 23 Sep 2010 Post subject: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was higher |
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| Quote: | Just one in 100 people in the UK say they are gay or lesbian, according to statistics on sexuality published for the first time.
A further one in every 200 people are bisexual, according to the data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The information collected as part of the new Integrated Household Survey (IHS) means that nearly three-quarters of a million UK adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual.
More than 480,000 consider themselves to be gay or lesbian and a further 245,000 say they are bisexual.
The IHS is the largest social survey ever produced by the ONS and contains information provided by nearly 450,000 people - the biggest pool of UK social data after the Census.
Respondents were asked whether they would describe themselves as heterosexual/straight, gay/lesbian, bisexual or other.
Nearly all replied, with the vast majority (95%) saying they were heterosexual.
One in every 200 chose "other" and just under 3% said "don't know" or refused to answer.
The ONS said the highest proportion of adults who said they were gay, lesbian or bisexual was in London and the lowest in Northern Ireland.
The question about sexual identity was added to the survey last year to provide a fuller picture of British society and to help public sector organisations to monitor their responsibility to provide equal opportunities. |
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seen this while on the bbc news site
I always thought the percentage was about 5% or are a lot of gay people not open enough to answer truthfully
personally I know about 10 openly gay people maybe more
I also thought Brighton was the gay capital of the Uk or so the media would have us believe ____________________ I have become comfortably numb
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I thought it was about 1 in 10.
I think its pish though, putting a label on something as quixotic as sexualilty, its like trying to put an arbitrary age on consent (for example.)
The majority of people will be one thing or the other (with more to the straight end of the spectrum) but there are a lot of people who sit some where along that spectrum but due to the stigma society attaches to anything other than the accepted norm (helped in no small measure by history and religion,) these people refuse to say openly that they might consider the boaby/clunge (dependant on gender.)
I think you what I'm going to say now, the one member here who is at the vangaurd of the sexual revolution, who refuses to be caged or funneled into one way of sexual being... Warped! He is an example to us all, vadge or penis; he doesn't discern!
Or something.
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Pa how did I know that, that would be brought up?
Yes I shagged a tranny, but dare I say it was a lot better loooking than most of the dogs that live round here. And even more amusing it was a Southerner, like most of our members.
Pink - Pulse is optinal, but there are 2 sayings we should all remember here:
If it don't have a pulse fuck it until it does,
If it past having a pulse, put it in the micro for a few minutes.
I have been mates with a gay kid for a round 8 years, my circle of mates all know him as gay yet he refuses to acknowledge that he is. We generally describe him as been so far in the closet he is in narnia's narnia.
Gay people are all right, if they aren't coming on to me or been extrovertly gay, as in screaming it to the neighbourhood to try get attention from it. And screaming at the top of there voice in the campest voice ever.
Also having been in 2 of London's biggest gay clubs (Heaven and G.A.Y) I can tell you that there are more gays in the UK than that is letting on to be.
I really should stop talking now, I know far to much about this community to be telling people I am straight and have a GF. ____________________ amnesia - Never in the history of usernames has one been more accurate. Warped indeed. You sir are a fecking oddball. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 15 years, 149 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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