Gallup: Americans 'greatly overestimate' LGBT numbers
A just-released Gallup survey says Americans “greatly overestimate” the number of their fellow citizens who identify as “gay” or lesbian, mistakenly believing about 23 percent of the population fits this category.
The National Health Interview Survey, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project, found in an extensive research paper in 2013 less than 3 percent of participants labeled themselves as “gay,” lesbian or bisexual, Breitbart reported. Only 1.6 percent in this same survey self-identified as “gay” or lesbian.
Gallup’s survey, however, shows Americans by and large are fooled into thinking the “gay”-lesbian population sits in the double-digits....