first time the bureau had asked questions about sexual orientation and gender identity. “By combining a series of three questions, the survey allows researchers to compare the recent experiences of the LGBT population to other adults,” notes a release from the Census Bureau.The findings, which use the term LGBT instead of The Advocate’s more expansive LGBTQ+, include the following:About 13.1 percent of LGBT adults lived in a household where there was sometimes or often not enough to eat in the past seven days, compared to 7.2 percent of non-LGBT adults.Some 36.6 percent of LGBT adults lived in a household that had difficulty paying for usual household expenses in the previous seven days, as opposed to 26.1 percent of non-LGBT adults.And.