UK gay, lesbian and bisexual population revealed, page 1

UK gay, lesbian and bisexual population revealed

www.bbc.co.uk

Almost three quarters of a million UK adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual - equivalent to 1.5% of the population, a survey suggests.

The Office for National Statistics says 480,000 (1%) consider themselves gay or lesbian, and 245,000 (0.5%) bisexual.

London has the highest numbers polled and Northern Ireland the lowest.

The ONS received 450,000 responses in its new Integrated Household Survey (IHS) - the biggest pool of UK social data after the Census.

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Well, isn't THIS interesting?

That's 1.5% of the British population that the main religious establishments hate. 1.5% of the population that many right-wing Daily Hate-Mail readers would like to see the back of. 1.5% of the population that supposedly don't 'fit' into traditional British values.

I wonder what our resident religious hypocrites and right-wing nutters will make of this? After all, we in the UK are a DIVERSE, TOLERANT and ACCEPTING nation are we not?

Let the hating begin.

Parallex.

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reply to post by Parallex

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London has the highest numbers polled

Southern fairies!

I don't think as many people hate homosexuals as you believe, they are definitely not my cup of tea in the sense that I don't agree with their sexuality or what they engage in but the majority of people are happy enough as long as they keep their business to themselves.

reply to post by budski

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Something similar once happened to me, I was once at some building with many rooms teaching/talking about different stuff, and I was going there for a class on watercolor painting(wife was forcing me to expand horizons) and I ended up in the wrong class, but there was food, so I kinda ended up helping myself because the watermelon just looked so juicy.

Then I looked behind me and there was a roundtable of lesbians...all giving me the evil eye. I swear knives were being shot from their eyes at me, then I realized where I was because of a sign on the wall. So I thought I should make angry people angrier and I just sat down in their roundtable and some of them, their heads started to steam like a kettle.

And I told them something like this "hey did you guys see that simpsons episode where there were a bunch of feminist activists rallying female rights and a construction crew happened to be in the area, then one of the counstruction workers opened up a beer bottled and it all fizzed on the activists and their clothes and picket signs all turned into bikinis and everyone became hot women"

hahaha, that was a day to remember!!!!

But yes I do agree, it does go both ways!
I believe some of them aren't born lesbian but scorned women.

reply to post by ModernAcademia

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I genuinely don't care, although I am surprised at only 1.5%

If the survey said 5% of people had ginger hair, I still wouldn't care.

reply to post by ModernAcademia

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Of course we can talk about why what two, or more, consenting adults get up to behind closed doors is of absolutely no care or concern to me whatsoever.

Do you want me to talk about my suprise that this survey suggests that gay, lesbian and bisexual's only make up 1.5% of the UK population or gay,lesbian and bisexual issues in general?

reply to post by Parallex

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I don't particularly like seeing hetrosexuals having a full on snog in public, a peck on the cheek is ok in my book.
Sorry, just the way I am.
Man and the bible belt and all that maybe, I don't know.

Sat next to a few gay people on various modes of transport, can't say I've ever been particularly bothered.
I've sat next to one or two odious hetrosexuals over the years and really wanted to kick the crap out of them though!

Adoption?
I know some people don't like the idea but as long as the prospective parents meet all the required criteria I don't think it is really a problem.

I know some lesbian couples who have children and it can be difficultfor the child at times, suppose that's where parenting come's in.

reply to post by Freeborn

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Same here - it's not that I'm a prude, I'm just not into the whole public displays of affection/foreplay thing.

I don't have a problem with it as such, it's just "not me" if you know what I mean...

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