In 2023, approximately 91.2 percent of the population of London identified as being Heterosexual or Straight, which was the lowest among regions of the United Kingdom. As of this year, approximately 3.5 percent of Londoners identified as being Gay or Lesbian, 1.7 percent as Bisexual, 0.9 percent as Other and 2.8 percent who did not know, or refused to answer.

Sexual orientation in the UK by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, and ethnic group. These are official statistics in development.

There were estimated to be approximately **** million people in the United Kingdom who identified as being Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual in 2023, compared with ******* in 2014.

Sexual identity estimates by occupation 2014. This is presented at a UK level, and broken down by England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In 2023, approximately 93.6 percent of the population of the United Kingdom identified themselves as being straight or heterosexual, compared with two percent who identified as either Gay or Lesbian, 1.8 percent as Bisexual, 0.7 percent as Other and 2.7 percent who did not know, or refused to answer.

In a global survey conducted in 2023, ***** percent of respondents declared to be homosexual, gay, or lesbian. In Brazil and the Netherlands, for instance, **** percent, instead, identified as bisexual, representing the largest group of bisexual respondents among the 30 surveyed countries. Moreover, *** percent of the interviewees in Switzerland said to be pansexual or omnisexual. Pansexuality describes people who feel attracted to other people regardless of their biological sex, gender, or gender identity, whereas omnisexuality refers to people attracted to people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.

In 2022, a survey of people in Great Britain showed that ** percent of Gen Z were exclusively attracted to the opposite sex, with *** percent advising they were attracted to both sexes equally, and ** percent that they were mostly or only attracted to the same sex.

In 2022, approximately ** percent of Gen Z in Great Britain identified their sexual orientation as being straight, compared with 82 percent of millennials, ** percent of Gen X and ** percent of Baby Boomers. The next most common sexual orientation for Gen Z was Bi, with ten percent of this generation identifying this way.

As of 2023, approximately 93.3 percent of men in the United Kingdom identified as being heterosexual, compared with 2.8 percent that identified as being homosexual, 1.5 percent as Bisexual, 0.7 percent as "other", and 1.8 percent that did not know, or refused to answer. Since 2014, the share of men that said they identified as homosexual has increased from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent.

There were estimated to be ******* same-sex couple families in the United Kingdom in 2024, compared with just ****** in 1996.

The United Kingdom was ranked 15th out of 48 European countries in Rainbow Europe's annual LGBTI rights ranking for 2024, with the country receiving a total score of ***** percent. The UK performs well for its LGBTI civil society, which is fully free to operate freely within the country, as well as for its family protections. At the other end, the UK performs poorly on intersex bodily integrity, for which it has few or no legal protections.

According to survey conducted in eight countries, Great Britain is the country where people are more likely to support a family member of a friend who would come out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The least supportive countries, on the other hand, seem to be Italy and Germany. In Italy, for instance, some 14 percent of respondents stated to be unsupportive, while in Germany, some 14 percent would oppose their friends or family.

As of 2019, the share of the UK population that currently smoked and identified as heterosexual/straight was **** percent. Those that had identified as gay or lesbian had a larger share of the population that currently smoked, at approximately **** percent.

This survey shows the results of a survey among respondents with a gay, lesbian, bisexual or other sexual orientation on the separation of marriage and Civil Partnership. The survey was conducted in 2012 in the United Kingdom. 47 percent of the respondents thought that insisting on a separation and distinction of marriage and Civil Partnership worsens the attitudes towards gay people.

According to a survey of LGBTQ+ people in Great Britain, ** percent agreed somewhat that LGBTQ+ individuals faced discrimination in the workplace due to their gender identity, while a further ** percent strongly agreed they did. Just three percent strongly disagreed, that LGBTQ+ individuals faced discrimination at work for this reason.

As of the 2019 general election, there were 46 openly LGBTQ+ MPs elected to the United Kingdom's House of Commons, compared with 45 in 2017. Of these MPs, 20 were members of the ruling Conservative Party, 15 were Labour MPs, and a further ten belonged to the Scottish National Party (SNP).

This statistic shows respondents statements after they were asked to place their sexuality on a scale of 0 to 6, where 0 is completely heterosexual and 6 is completely homosexual. 76 percent of female respondents and 68 percent of male respondents were completely heterosexual, whereas eight percent of male respondents regarded themselves as being completely homosexual, where as one percent of female respondents made the same conclusion.