More adults in the US are openly identifying as LGBT than ever before, according to a new Gallup poll out on Wednesday. In fact, one in six adults in Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2002) identify as something other than heterosexual.
Nearly 16% of Generation Z adults, who were between the ages of 18 and 23 in 2020, identify as LGBT, according to the poll. And about 72% of those who identify as LGBT say they are bisexual.
That means about 11.5% of all Generation Z adults in the U.S. are bisexual, according to Gallup. As for the second-youngest group of adults – millennials – 9.1% identify as LGBT.
This demographic was born between 1981 and 1996. About half of the millennials who identify as LGBTQ are bisexual, according to