One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. Go To Site

The nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., has the highest percentage – 10% -- of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT) in the United States, according to Gallup. The national average of people identifying as LGBT is 3.5%, and the state with the lowest percentage of LGBT is North Dakota, 1.7%. Go To Site

How Many Americans Are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual?

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As it has for decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week released its annual National Health Interview Survey on the health of Americans.

  But this year, there was a difference: For the first time, the respondents were asked about their sexual orientation. Of 34,557 adults ages 18 and older, the survey reported, 1.6 percent said they were gay or lesbian. Some critics say the numbers are low, but they fall in the range of other surveys.

Health survey gives government its first large-scale data on gay, bisexual population

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Less than 3 percent of the U.S. population identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday in the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation. The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves bisexual.

Gallup study: 3.4 percent of US adults are LGBT

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A new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The findings, released Thursday, were based on interviews with more than 121,000 people. Gallup said it is the largest study ever aimed at calculating the nation's LGBT population.