@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agoMore Gen Z Americans identify as LGBTQ than as Republicanwww.thepinknews.commessage-square493fedilinkarrow-up11.48Kfile-text
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minus-squareGhostalmedialinkfedilinkEnglish37•10 months agoThat’s not what the data said. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/gen-z-less-religious-more-liberal-lgbtq Identifying as Republican went from 32% in the Boomer Generation to 21% in Gen Z. Identifying as LGBTQ+ went from 4% with Boomers to 28% with Gen Z. Both changes are major, but the LGBTQ+ change is massive.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink37•10 months agoIt’s probably worth mentioning we recognize certain types of people as part of the LGBTQ+ umbrella who were not before. Asexual people, for example.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink30•10 months agoAlso huge swaths of bi people and a lot of people who are now understood as gay and trans as opposed to straight people who hate their body and life but got rejected from hormones
That’s not what the data said.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/gen-z-less-religious-more-liberal-lgbtq
Identifying as Republican went from 32% in the Boomer Generation to 21% in Gen Z. Identifying as LGBTQ+ went from 4% with Boomers to 28% with Gen Z.
Both changes are major, but the LGBTQ+ change is massive.
It’s probably worth mentioning we recognize certain types of people as part of the LGBTQ+ umbrella who were not before. Asexual people, for example.
Also huge swaths of bi people and a lot of people who are now understood as gay and trans as opposed to straight people who hate their body and life but got rejected from hormones