About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the Gay population over the last 20 plus years. It lists the population for each year, along with the year on year change in population, as well as the change in percentage terms for each year. The dataset can be utilized to understand the population change of Gay across the last two decades. For example, using this dataset, we can identify if the population is declining or increasing. If there is a change, when the population peaked, or if it is still growing and has not reached its peak. We can also compare the trend with the overall trend of United States population over the same period of time.

Key observations

In 2023, the population of Gay was 116, a 4.13% decrease year-by-year from 2022. Previously, in 2022, Gay population was 121, an increase of 5.22% compared to a population of 115 in 2021. Over the last 20 plus years, between 2000 and 2023, population of Gay decreased by 37. In this period, the peak population was 153 in the year 2000. The numbers suggest that the population has already reached its peak and is showing a trend of decline. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP).

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP).

Data Coverage:

• From 2000 to 2023

Variables / Data Columns

• Year: This column displays the data year (Measured annually and for years 2000 to 2023)
• Population: The population for the specific year for the Gay is shown in this column.
• Year on Year Change: This column displays the change in Gay population for each year compared to the previous year.
• Change in Percent: This column displays the year on year change as a percentage. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

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Inspiration

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Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Gay Population by Year. You can refer the same here

According to a global survey conducted in 2021, three in 10 respondents had at least once spoken out against someone who was being prejudiced against LGBT+ people. In addition, some 13 percent attended a public event in support of LGBT+ people, e.g. a Pride march.

Context

Every year, along with the State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA World publishes also maps of sexual orientation laws in the world.

https://ilga.org/maps-sexual-orientation-laws

Content

A useful tool for LGB human rights defenders, these images expose the arbitrariness of persecutory laws, and starkly indicate the absence of positive law in most parts of the world.

https://ilga.org/maps-sexual-orientation-laws

Acknowledgements

https://ilga.org/maps-sexual-orientation-laws

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Inspiration

LGBTQIA community.

"The negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). The prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear and ignorance, and is often related to religious beliefs against LGBTQIA community." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia

In 2024, 14.2 percent of Millennials in the United States stated that they identify as LGBTQ+, while in 2012, less than six percent of respondents from the same generation said the same. Members of Generation Z were the most likely to identify as LGBTQ+, at over 23 percent.

While the positive effect of education on political tolerance toward minorities is well-known, we understand far less about education’s impact on tolerance across varying contexts. Utilizing multilevel statistical techniques, we find an interactive effect indicating that education at the individual level has a greater effect on political tolerance toward those who identify as homosexuals in wealthier countries. The results suggest that (1) completing additional levels of schooling may be insufficient to promote tolerant attitudes toward this minority and (2) more investment in education leads to stronger impacts. We support this finding by showing that where educational expenditures are greater, the average impact of secondary education is larger. The study uses individual data from 26 countries in the 2014 AmericasBarometer as well as indicators from the World Bank DataBank and Freedom House.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The SIGMA project research had its origins in 1982 at University College Cardiff, as a project to investigate gay and bisexual men's sexual behaviour as AIDS began to threaten (then GRID: gay-related immune deficiency). Following extensive piloting, the main SIGMA study was launched in 1986 and between 1987 and 1994 carried out a seven-year, five-phase cohort study of gay and bisexual men. The main aims of the study were to estimate, in a natural (non-clinic based) sample: (1) the prevalence and incidence of sexual behaviours (especially those implicated in the transmission of HIV), (2) to take blood-samples to investigate rates of HIV sero-positivity and sero-conversion, (3) to examine the social and sexual lifestyles and culture of gay and bisexual men, and (4) to monitor the trends towards safer sex practice, especially the adoption of condoms.

As a longitudinal study, there was a major focus on change in these processes. SIGMA was one of the largest studies of gay and bisexual men in the world, was an integral part of the WHO (Global Programme on AIDS) Seven-Nation Homosexual Response Studies and shared research instruments with a number of US and European projects.

A component part of SIGMA data consists of 1,975 month-long sexual diaries. The Diaries Project asked gay and bisexual men to keep diaries, filled in on a daily basis usually over a period of a maximum of one month, giving detailed information about the content and sequence of their sexual activity, about their partners' characteristics and about the context in which the sexual behaviour occurred. Diarists were recruited both as part of the Project SIGMA ongoing samples, supplemented occasionally by large-scale appeals in the gay press for volunteers. The 774 diaries have now been anonymised, microfiched and indexed. the machine-readable coded versions are lodged in this dataset. The natural-language microfiched and anonymised versions are not held at the UK Data Archive, but at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, Archives and Manuscripts, The Wellcome Trust, London; see the Wellcome Trust Investigating responses to AIDS in the late 1980s blog page for further details and how to apply for access.


Main Topics:

Each wave has a core and non-core component, the core component always covers: phlebotomy (actual blood test); SIGMA type (age-group by relationship status); current sexual orientation; sexual acts inventory; relationships and history; regular, occasional and casual sex activity; un/safe and risk behaviour; health and lifestyle; DAS (Leeds depression, anxiety, stigma) scale; (reported) HIV testing; 1-week retrospective sexual diary.

The non-core component covers:

• Wave 1 (1987/88) current demographic details; the past (sexual and orientational history, coming out, sexual relationship/s); sexual practices (including age at first homosexual (and heterosexual) experiences, timing and numbers of subsequent sexual experience and casual and regular partners; genitalia; 1-week diary; health Leeds DAS scale; suicidal feelings/incidents; HIV test; STIs, 'safer sex' practices, beliefs; condom usage; aids knowledge and networks; regime and lifestyle; recreational drugs; health beliefs.
• Wave 2 (1988/89) included: disclosure; social networks; sexual partners; communication and norms; subjective estimates of risk; SM sex, supplement for HIV sero-positives.
• Wave 3 (1989/90) included: relationship history chart; household arrangements; sex for money; verbal and physical abuse; (sero-positive supplement).
• Wave 4 (1991/2) included: condom use; meaning of words describing sexual behaviour; clinic attendance; (new respondent supplement) (sero-positive supplement).
• Wave 5 (1993/4) included: believed HIV status; sexual health publicity campaigns (sero-positive supplement).

Standard Measures:
DAS (Leeds Depression, Anxiety Scale) Hamilton 1960; Snaith et al 1976); Sexual Acts Inventory (developed by project SIGMA; Coxon 1992); Occupation Code; Socio-Economic Group and Registrar General's Social Class (OPCS, 1980).

BackgroundIn May 2022, a global surge in mpox cases, typically endemic to Western and Central Africa, particularly affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM). This study examines gbMSM communities’ experiences and perceptions around Ireland’s public health response to the outbreak.MethodsA cross-sectional mixed-methods online survey was conducted. Qualitative data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis informed by critical realism.FindingsA total of 163 gay and bisexual men took part in the survey. Participants accessed information from diverse sources, reporting varying levels of trustworthiness. Overall, participants were well-informed. Four themes were developed from the qualitative data: (1) Perceptions of the mpox response: divergence in urgency, priority, and care; (2) The mpox outbreak as a sign of otherness for gbMSM; (3) The potential for othering through mpox prevention practices; and (4) mpox, memory and fear.DiscussionWhile community-led initiatives were effective, significant challenges included stigmatisation, discrimination, and mistrust towards public health institutions, influenced by institutionalised homophobia. The study underscores the need for inclusive, culturally sensitive, and transparent public health strategies.ConclusionThe mpox outbreak highlights the importance of robust community collaboration in public health interventions. Future strategies must ensure equitable access to information, vaccination, and care, and address broader structural inequalities to foster trust and engagement within affected communities.

Microsatellite datasets of maternal progenies from a Medicago truncatula natural population located near Narbonne, in southern France (Aude) and analysed in te article "Original article: How and when does outcrossing occur in the predominantly selfing species Medicago truncatula?". Individuals were sampled from pods produced either early or late in the flowering season and were genotyped at 20 microsatellite loci.

Birth of the Marimacho: Modernismo’s Trans* Cultural Productions in Latin America is a Horizon Marie Skłodowska Curie Action 2022-funded project under grant number 101103095. This research analyzes the representations of a radical gender embodiment in early-twentieth-century Latin American literature, medical science, and visual culture: the ‹‹marimacho››. In the Hispanic tradition, marimacho is the umbrella notion that may refer to a sexist slur as much as a modern form of non-binary gender, a transmasculine identification, or a lesbian sexual identity. This project examines the aesthetic construction of this hybrid, counter-cultural, and gender-dissident figure in an extensive cultural repertoire that includes novels, plays, silver films, leaflets, medical studies, prison and mental hospital records, poems, newspaper, and tabloid articles from the period 1880-1930.

Data collection aims to assemble a corpus of published and unpublished sources held in print and digital archives and special collections in Latin America and Europe. These sources are copyright-free and are available through open access in university digital repositories, national archives, and research institutes in Germany, France, Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. The main purpose of the data collected and presented in this critical reference data base is to analyze its content through the methodologies of literary studies and gender theory concerning the main research questions of the project outlined in the original proposal. Some of the research questions that inform this project are:

1) What gendered formats, systems of racial classification, and mechanisms of sexual exclusion did modernista & avant-garde writers use to construct the marimacho (butch women/ early forms of transmasculinities/lesbian populations) but also the maricón(the fairy) as public enemies of national morals?

2) How and why did writers engage with tropes of world literary traditions—notions of Greek love, vampirism, primitivism, orientalism, teratology, and sexual inversion— to define the marimachos and maricones as dangers to bourgeois society?

3) What aesthetic practices such as clothing, hair, makeup, fashion, fragrance, tattooing, sports, dancing, poetics, and musical performances did queer women, non-binary peoples, and trans* men use to contest naturalized notions of femininity and masculinity?

This research seeks to increase the understanding of the region’s politics of gender and sexuality during the so-called positivist era (1880-1930), that is, before the solidification of LGBTQ activism, pride literature, and minority social movements of the Global 1960s. In the period of modernization that this project covers, there was a reaction against new gender dynamics led by cosmopolitan networks of feminism and the discreet homosexual liberation movements of the turn of the century. In response, the keepers of gender normativity created the marimacho as a monster version of conventional masculinity. Today, examining this response of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is crucial to understand the current anti-LGBT hatred in socio-political discourse.