LGBT poll in Canada

[Hatman 🍁]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/06/the-true-north-lgbt-new-poll-reveals-landscape-of-gay-canada/

Interesting findings:
5% of Canadians identify as LGBT (10% of young people identify as such, meaning the actual number is probably more than 10% of the general public)
74% of Canadians know someone who is LGBT.
28% have someone in their family who is LGBT
2/3rd support gay marriage, including majorities in every province except Alberta.
80% of NDP supporters support gay marriage compared to just 68% of Liberals and 46% of Tories.
7% of NDP supporters are LGBT, 3% of Tories and just 1% of Liberals (probably a huge margin of error here though).
Women are more likely to support SSM than men (72-60.5); but both are equally as likely to be LGBT (indicates to me that women are more likely to admit being bisexual, as there are fewer lesbians than homosexual men)
People in lower income brackets are less likely to support gay marriage, yet LGBT people are more likely to be in lower income  brackets. (the former isn't that surprising, considering most immigrants fall into this category, although the person who wrote that article didn't mention that, and instead mentioned people in lower class jobs are more likely to be intolerant. But, I think place of origin is more of an indicator than profession. The latter is more surprising, considering I thought that many gays were well off, because they are less likely to have children to support. But, I suppose this is based on circumstantial evidence of some of the gays I know)

[Hatman 🍁]

An interesting study. The % of people who identify as LGBT is always difficult; many people have same sex relationships but would never identify as LGBT. And of course being asked the question prompts a different response from self-reporting. Halfway between 5-10% seems about right, though 10% in young people is promising which is hopefully the result of it being easier to simply be out.

My thinking is the number is above 10%, because young people are more likely to tell the truth, and I see no reason to believe that older people are actually less likely to be LGBT (but are less likely to report it, especially if they are just bisexual). And since there are a few young people who wont admit it either, then one can hypothesize the number of LGBT is even higher than 10%.

[Hatman 🍁]

Is there anything at all to indicate that it's actually the case that there are 'fewer lesbians than gay men' or is it a question of more men admitting to being gay, similar to more women admitting to being bisexual?

Maybe, but I saw a study that compared sexuality to left handedness where 10% of the population was LGBT and 10% of the population was left handed, while the proportion of gays to lesbians was the same as male lefthanders and female lefthanders. Not sure how credible that is, though. But, I think it's obvious that there are more out and out gay men than Lesbians out there. At least from my observations.

[Hatman 🍁]

You see more Lesbians than homosexual men usually?  Interesting.  Porn doesn't count btw

[Hatman 🍁]

Yeah, I'll let some one in the LGBT community answer that question, I guess. I have limited knowledge from watching gay pride parades (mostly men), watching the rainbow rockers curling league (almost 100% men) and knowing a "few gay people" (I don't know any lesbians, but I've met a few bisexuals, including my girlfriend). I also had gay neighbours growing up (also men).