![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyIf gays are a tiny minority then it surely doesn't harm you to let them do what they like.
Of course, you can be a tiny minority and still be a sizable number of people. Statistics show that only about 3% of the US identify as gay or bisexual. We have no idea how many people might simply be deeply closeted and not admit they are gay or bisexual, but then, those people are unlikely to get into a same-sex relationship in the near future so let's ignore them.
The US is the third most populous nation in the world, right after China, India, and the EU. (Okay, except the EU isn't a nation, now is it?) We have just over 321 million people. Minors make up about a quarter of the population, and like closeted gays are also unlikely to get married in the near future, so that leaves, what, 313 million people? Of whom nearly 10 million are gay or bisexual?
Okay, that may be a "tiny minority of the population", but it's also half the population of the greater New York metropolitan area. Or, put another way, it's about 25% greater than the population of NYC. However you want to slice it, 3% of the population of the US is going to add up to a lot of people.
I'm not sure if people making this claim simply can't do math, or if they don't want to.
Of course, you can be a tiny minority and still be a sizable number of people. Statistics show that only about 3% of the US identify as gay or bisexual. We have no idea how many people might simply be deeply closeted and not admit they are gay or bisexual, but then, those people are unlikely to get into a same-sex relationship in the near future so let's ignore them.
The US is the third most populous nation in the world, right after China, India, and the EU. (Okay, except the EU isn't a nation, now is it?) We have just over 321 million people. Minors make up about a quarter of the population, and like closeted gays are also unlikely to get married in the near future, so that leaves, what, 313 million people? Of whom nearly 10 million are gay or bisexual?
Okay, that may be a "tiny minority of the population", but it's also half the population of the greater New York metropolitan area. Or, put another way, it's about 25% greater than the population of NYC. However you want to slice it, 3% of the population of the US is going to add up to a lot of people.
I'm not sure if people making this claim simply can't do math, or if they don't want to.
