<p>More than a third of the students at Brown University do not identify as straight, a recent poll on sexual orientation shows.</p>
<p>The Brown Daily Herald, the Rhode Island-based university&#8217;s student newspaper, <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2023/06/lgbtq-student-self-identification-has-doubled-since-2010-according-to-herald-polling-data">reported</a> that &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbt">LGBTQ+</a> student self-identification&#8221; has doubled since 2010, as shown in its semesterly survey for spring 2023.</p>
<p>Thirty-eight percent of respondents did not identify as straight and within this group, 22.9% reported being gay or lesbian, while 53.7% described themselves as bisexual, the report said.</p>
<p>The student newspaper explained that it first surveyed sexual orientation in the fall of 2010 and, in recent semesters, has expanded the number of options in recent surveys &#8220;to better represent the Brown community.&#8221; Additions include “Queer,” “Pansexual,” “Asexual” and “Questioning/Unsure.&#8221;</p>
<p>With the inclusion of more options, The Brown Daily Herald said the number of respondents who self-identified as gay or lesbian within the subgroup has dropped from 46% in its fall 2010 survey. The publication also said students were &#8220;more likely to identify with a more diverse range of sexual orientations besides homosexual and bisexual in recent years.&#8221;</p>
<p>While some have said that students feel more comfortable about coming out, others argue social pressures fuel the rise in LGBTQ+ identification.</p>
<p>“There are two theories, that greater tolerance is allowing more to come out of the closet, or [liberal comedian] Bill Maher’s assertion that LGBT is trendy among some youth,” Eric Kaufmann, a professor at the University of London, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lgbt-identification-linked-to-social-pressure-political-scientist-finds/">told the College Fix last year</a>.</p>
<p>Kaufmann said he believes the second theory is a better fit for the data, as shown in a report he did as a research fellow for the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-study-of-partisanship-and-ideology-cspi/">right-leaning</a> Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. &#8220;Identity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>The latest survey of Brown University students follows a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx">report last year by Gallup</a>, which found that &#8220;LGBT identification&#8221; has risen over the past decade across the United States. That survey found 7.2% of U.S. adults reported being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual. Roughly a fifth of the 19-25 age group, aka adult members of Generation Z, identified as members of the LGBTQ+ community.</p>

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