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Adult LGBT Population in the United States

This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS data for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.

Combining BRFSS data, we estimate that % of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost million (13,,) LGBT adults in the U.S.

Regions and States

LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (%) of LGBT people in the U.S. verb in the Midwest (%) and South (%), including million in the Midwest and million in the South. About one-quarter (%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately million people. Less than one in five (%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast ( million).

The perce

In a controversial and very widespread transformation, co-founder of Young Gay America magazine and gay rights advocate Michael Glatze shocked his followers when he renounced his homosexuality and embraced a heterosexual life. Justin Kelly’s compelling directorial debut presents Glatze’s journey in an admirably measured and non-judgmental fashion. In the beginning, Michael (James Franco) is a joyful, committed queer activist, living with his boyfriend Bennett (Zachary Quinto) in the Castro where they both write for XY Magazine. A job offer for Bennett soon takes them to Halifax, Canada, where the two decide into a seemingly fulfilling life with their new lover Tyler (Charlie Carver), and Michael launches YGA, becoming a leading voice on issues of young gay experience. When a health scare leads Michael to reflect on a past he has never fully confronted, he searches for deeper meaning in and beyond life. Flirting with meditation and Buddhism, Michael ultimately seeks his answers in the Bible and, eventually, heterosexuality on the road to his truth.

It would be easy to condemn a

The Life and Death of a Young Gay American

In October , Michael Glatze, then 28, sat in Manhattan's Union Square Virgin Megastore, enthusiastically explaining Juvenile Gay America, the organization he helped launch with a mission to &#;save lives by educating and informing queer youth about their importance to society.&#;

With his co-founder and boyfriend Benjie Nycum, Glatze had made an award-winning film and launched a Web site, both of which enabled queer youth across the U.S. to tell their stories. They would later start a magazine bearing the group's name.

But, the heart of Young Gay America was a series of five, two-week road trips Glatze, Nycum, and several others took across the U.S. and Canada, in which they met with scores of queer youth, almost all of them remote from major urban areas. Detailed interviews and photos from those encounters were posted on the group's Web site, and served as the model for the stories other youths submitted themselves.

In a tribute of sorts to their efforts, a right-wing Christian group named one of the nation's &#;Ten

Young Gay America Editor Celebrates Recent Lifestyle

December 25, • By Tiffani Knowles


A former founding editor for the magazine Young Gay America is celebrating his recent marriage to his wife, claiming that the homosexual lifestyle is a mistake.

 

After working for Young Gay America for over a decade, Michael Glatze decided to no longer orient to homosexuality six years ago by the prompting of the Lord Jesus.

 

He walked away from the magazine, leaving a note on his noun that ended with “Homosexuality is death, and I choose life.”

 

Two months ago, Glatze married his girlfriend Rebekah at an outdoor ceremony in Bluffton, South Carolina. In a letter written last week and published by , Glatze gave thanks to God for his wife and addressed homosexual critics who have called his bride Glatze’s “prop” and “victim.”

 

“I have been married now for a little over a month—and it has been the greatest month of my life thus far!” he wrote. “I am so grateful for Rebekah, for God, for His provision, for my new in-laws, for my family that traveled from far and