A record number of U.S. adults – 5.6% – identify as LGBTQ, an increase propelled by a younger generation staking out its presence in the world, a poll released Wednesday shows.

The poll, which was based on 15,000 interviews last year with Americans 18 and older, found that 5.6% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. That number is up from Gallup's 2017 poll, which found 4.5% ...

A growing number of Americans identifying as bisexual are pulling the numbers up. Nearly 6 in 10 LGBTQ+ identifying adults say they’re bisexual, accounting for 4.4% of the US population, far ...

The 7.1% is double the percentage from 2012, when Gallup first measured identity, and is up over last year's poll that showed 5.6% of adults identify as LGBTQ. In a 2017 poll, that number was 4.5%.

An estimated 5.6 percent of Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, according to a new Gallup report. That’s up from 4.5 percent in 2017, the last year polling on the ...

A new Gallup poll out Thursday found that the number of Americans who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or as other than heterosexual has skyrocketed in the almost 15 years ...