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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Seen this while browsing all and find this incredibly hard to believe. Do you have a source? Was this an official census?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The source is referenced in the graph (PRRI survey from 2023, as described e.g. here)

The previous years are a different org's polls (Gallups)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe I have an explanation...

There is the letter B in LGBT.

Bisexuality...

If you liked both genders 40 years ago, you'd have chosen the hetero way.

If you like both genders now, it's easier to experiment. It's less likely that others ruin your life because of it.

50% of all LGBT people identify as bisexual. That's what pushed the numbers during the last decades.