I highly doubt researchers are deliberately destroying data for 5-7% (which is huge in terms of data) of the LGBT community just because of homophobia, especially when these studies are based on self-reporting, were actually conducted within the 21st century, and the second study was conducted by a gay man.

You:

But more to the point, what you wrote, at least from how I interpreted it, seems to insinuate that lesbians are getting into LDRs due to being 3-5% of the population.

Hence, together with my belief, is the reasoning that it's largely due to the number of lesbians not being equally distributed

I literally wrote in my last post:

many (most?) lesbians don't live near major cities so we have to branch out further to find more women like us

So yeah, you just keep repeating me. Also, you don't think our population size has something to do with distribution?

I feel like your insistence that we're 10% is because the activist gay community has been saying it for decades, especially during the fight for same-sex marriage in the US when homophobes didn't want to change the laws for "a few people" so we had to say we were more in numbers because discrimination against 10% of the population "looks worse" than discrimination against 3-5%. Here's the thing: we could be 1% of the population and that wouldn't make the fight for gay rights any less important since we literally just want the same things straight people want (but legally) and we're not demanding crazy ass things like access to opposite-sex spaces or suing people for not using our preferred pronouns.

Your wealthy people analogy is another false comparison because wealthy people can actually date anyone of the economic spectrum; nothing stops them from doing so other than keeping their wealth and reputations away from "the poors." A lesbian wouldn't and couldn't date someone outside a sexuality or gender that matches hers.

The population is closer towards 10%, which still makes it a very small population (1/10).

The very first line of your original response to me.

Lastly, I don't even know why you are taking this personally. I was just simply stating my opinion. It was never intended to be of a personal nature.

I literally took nothing "personally." You went out of your way to "correct" me and state your personal belief and opinion as fact, you were proven wrong, and now you're mad about being called out on it so you're calling me oversensitive. If anything, you're the one taking the proof that you were wrong personally just because of what you choose to believe. Sound familiar?