According to a new Gallup poll, a record number of Americans are beginning to self-identify as LGBTQ+.
The percentage has steadily increased from generation to generation in modern history, with only 4.2% of Gen Xers identifying as LGBTQ+ to 10.5% of millennials, and now 20.8% of Gen Z.
The author of the poll, Jeff Jones, shared with Axios, “People who identify as LGBTQ could make up 10 to 15% of the adult population ‘in the not too distant future.'”
A rising number of Americans self-identifying in this category is indicative of a generational shift in the LGBTQ community–while American attitudes even just a few years ago circulated around “accepting people as they are,” it seems a rising demographic in each generation demonstrates a societal agenda to encourage more people to identify as LGBTQ, even if they didn’t identify as any of these demographics in the first place.
As LGBTQ conversations are exposed from inside elementary school classrooms, in Disney movies, and more, it seems there is a cultural push to encourage more children and teenagers to join the LBGTQ community.
What do you think?
