WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup finds 9.0% of U.S. adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than straight or heterosexual in 2025. The percentage has more than doubled since Gallup first measured LGBTQ+ identification in 2012.
What Proportion of U.S. Adults Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender?
Bisexual adults make up the largest share of the LGBTQ+ population at 58.6%, equivalent to 5.3% of all U.S. adults. Beyond that, 17.4% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are gay, 16.0% identify as lesbian, and 12.1% say they are transgender, all ranging between 1% and 2% of U.S. adults overall.
Who Identifies as LGBTQ+?
Young adults are far more likely than older adults to identify as LGBTQ+. Twenty-three percent of adults under 30 and 10.4% of adults aged 30 to 49 are LGBTQ+, compared with about 2% to 3% of older Americans.
Women are nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+ (10.5% vs. 5.6%, respectively), a gap driven primarily by women’s higher rates of bisexual identification. Gender gaps are especially pronounced in the youngest generation — 31.4% of women aged 18 to 29 versus 11.4% of men in the same age group identify as LGBTQ+, with most of these younger women saying they are bisexual.
Strong differences in LGBTQ+ identification are also seen by party identification, with 14.2% of Democrats, 10.3% of independents and 1.9% of Republicans saying they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
City residents (10.9%) are slightly more likely than those living in suburban (8.7%) or rural (7.0%) areas to identify as LGBTQ+.
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Learn more in Gallup’s 2026 LGBTQ+ update. For more articles in the “Short Answer” series, visit Gallup's The Short Answer page.
