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First of all, I want to start out by saying that I was NEVER denying the fact that there are gays and lesbians in GLOs... I am fully aware that there are. I was just citing information that shows that the "ten percent" rule of gay and lesbians is not quite accurate.
Unfortunately, I do not have the exact studies that I garnered this information from as it was over a year ago. However, here are several other items that support this:
-According to what I learned in a class (this is supported in actual published works, I just don't know which ones), the ten percent figure is based off flawed and misleading studies from the 40s and 50s.
-According to Census 2000 figures, there are a total of 106,741,426 households in the U.S., only .42% of those are unmarried same-sex households. This is less than one percent.
For instance, a nationwide random sample of 5,514 first-year Canadian college students under age 25 found that only 1% considered themselves bisexual and another 1% homosexual. A national poll showed that 2.4 percent of U.S. voters in the 1992 presidential election described themselves as homosexual.
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