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[–]HelloMomo 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm probably young and naive, but I'm gonna disagree with most of you guys, just because a weirdly high proportion of my childhood friends have grown up gay. I think the proportion of the population is more in the 10% to 5% range. Like a quarter of my childhood girl scout trope is gay now. We're only in our early 20s now, and so the number may drop again by the time we hit our 30s or 40s. But still, it seems authentic to me right now. Like them being gay makes sense to me; it lines up with my gaydar intuition.

[–]hermiona52 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I might agree with you. Any estimates right now will be biased. And it will stay this way until we live in times when being a lesbian, or bi or gay won't be an issue at all. A norm (like being a redhead is a norm even though a minority). When there's a generation that is born in such times, grow up - then we'll be able to see a real statistics. But I don't think any of us will live to such times, since stereotypes are still too integrated in our society.

After all, majority of lesbians still feel uneasy even using a word 'lesbian'.