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Number Of Young Americans Who Identify As LGBT Skyrockets: Poll

Jon Brown
Number Of Young Americans Who Identify As LGBT Skyrockets: Poll
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The number of Americans who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender has increased in recent years, especially among young people.

A Gallup poll released Wednesday discovered that self-identified LGBT people rose from an estimated 4.5 percent of the U.S. population in 2017 to 5.6 percent in 2021.

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