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PostPosted: 18:48 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was higher Reply with quote

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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
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PostPosted: 18:54 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:

personally I know about 10 openly gay people maybe more


And how many straight people do you know?

Perhaps you just attract them. Razz

I can only think of 3/4 people I know being gay.
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PostPosted: 18:57 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Poofters eh!?!?!?!?? Yes had dealings with those types in the forces, wont catch me with my troursers round my ankles[/url]
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PostPosted: 19:13 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

Big_Ham wrote:
oldpink wrote:

personally I know about 10 openly gay people maybe more


And how many straight people do you know?

Perhaps you just attract them. Razz

I can only think of 3/4 people I know being gay.


I know thousands of people so thats maybe the reason I know more gay people
like when I lived in Amsterdam, the shop next to the one I worked in was owned by a gay couple and
Harry the artist was a real sweetie and more camp than John Inman
but a lovely guy
i also know a gay couple I worked with developing web sites there in the US

I also know a couple of people that are Bi as well but not gay in the classic sense
they just like a bit of both and I don't treat them any different to my other friends
my uncle is openly gay and at least one other family member has not come out yet
but I know they are gay thats why I was surprised by the 1%

also funny how a lot of guys think Hmmm poofters, dodgy lot
but think a couple of lessys, now I could show them a thing or two Wink
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PostPosted: 19:51 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:

personally I know about 10 openly gay people maybe more

oldpink wrote:

I know thousands of people so thats maybe the reason I know more gay people

Erm, so that'd actually be less than 1%, then?
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PostPosted: 19:57 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

57% of all statistics are made up
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PostPosted: 20:07 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

G wrote:
oldpink wrote:

personally I know about 10 openly gay people maybe more

oldpink wrote:

I know thousands of people so thats maybe the reason I know more gay people

Erm, so that'd actually be less than 1%, then?


but thats just the ones I know are gay
its not exactly an icebreaker in conversation, Hi I'm gay pleased to meet you
the more I think about it the more i remember are gay, maybe not openly
but gay non the less people I know, my estimate of 10 may have been a bit short of the mark
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was higher Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:
1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was higher


A lot of gay activists types will try to have you believe that 1 in 10 people are gay, but thats just because they want to seem more important than they are.
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:
1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was higher



The real figure is probably more but they dont admit it.....

Are you gay?

No but my boyfriend is!

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PostPosted: 20:50 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 20:56 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

colin1 wrote:

A lot of gay activists types will try to have you believe that 1 in 10 people are gay, but thats just because they want to seem more important than they are.


This.
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PostPosted: 22:02 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

only 1% of men admit to being gay....

does that include those men identifying as bisexual bu discounting the possibility of relationships with females?

Or transgendered women who now identify as men and are still attracted to men?

there are grey areas to statistics like that, would the outcome be the same if the survey was confidential and conducted through a means in which the entirety of the British population over the age of 18 was interviewed?
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PostPosted: 22:30 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 22:31 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

pa_broon74 wrote:
Warped! He is an example to us all, vadge or penis; he doesn't discern!

Or something.

Wink


I think a pulse is optional...... species negligable..... but it doesnt make him a bad person.

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PostPosted: 23:02 - 23 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

pinkyfloyd wrote:
Are you gay?


Gimmie a kiss and I'll tell ya.
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.


For fucks sake that is disgusting Sick A microwave? They just end up like a microwave dinner, hot on the outside but cold in the middle, like fucking a Cornetto but you have eaten all the ice cream down to the cone but left the inner ice cream in.

What you want is a dialysis machine and a kettle, like an internal heater Wink
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

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For fucks sake that is disgusting Sick A microwave? They just end up like a microwave dinner, hot on the outside but cold in the middle, like fucking a Cornetto but you have eaten all the ice cream down to the cone but left the inner ice cream in.

What you want is a dialysis machine and a kettle, like an internal heater Wink


This sounds like the voice of experience talking....

Is there something you want to tell us pits my friend?
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

pinkyfloyd wrote:

This sounds like the voice of experience talking....

Is there something you want to tell us pits my friend?


Maybe he works in a welsh butchers?
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

All I am saying is that what more do you need in life other than, warm pussy, cold beer and somewhere to take a shit with a door on it, you don't want the dog looking at you do you?
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PostPosted: 14:26 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:

I always thought the percentage was about 5% or are a lot of gay people not open enough to answer truthfully


Although only 1% of people in the study admitted being gay, another 5% put either "Don't Know" or "Not Saying" Laughing

I.e. the total is probably higher (I'm guessing that not many straight people would refuse to answer this question - I may be wrong!)
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PostPosted: 14:27 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

pits wrote:
All I am saying is that what more do you need in life other than, warm pussy, cold beer and somewhere to take a shit with a door on it, you don't want the dog looking at you do you?


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PostPosted: 17:22 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: 1% pf population admit to being gay, I thought it was hi Reply with quote

Vinyardo wrote:
oldpink wrote:

I always thought the percentage was about 5% or are a lot of gay people not open enough to answer truthfully


Although only 1% of people in the study admitted being gay, another 5% put either "Don't Know" or "Not Saying" Laughing

I.e. the total is probably higher (I'm guessing that not many straight people would refuse to answer this question - I may be wrong!)


Or it could be its lower if confused bisexuals, think they must be gay, if they think you are either straight or gay.
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PostPosted: 17:23 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

pits wrote:
All I am saying is that what more do you need in life other than, warm pussy, cold beer and somewhere to take a shit with a door on it, you don't want the dog looking at you do you?


I'd agree with that except I dont need a door, and I dont have a dog.
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PostPosted: 17:26 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

warped one wrote:

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.


Or maybe they make a lot of noise, and if you put them all in one room, it looks like there are a lot of them.
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