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LGBTQ+ Rights: Trends in 2024

Challenges to LGBTQ Rights Amid Political Shifts

In 2023, LGBTQ rights have faced threats across the globe, spanning from Europe and the Americas to Africa and Asia. This is a consequence of an ongoing political and religious backlash, frequently coinciding with the ascent of right-wing populist parties worldwide. Additionally, these parties, or political activists, have played a role in promoting anti-LGBTQ rhetoric by integrating it into the political discourse of numerous nations. Notably, this shift is detectable even in countries that were once regarded as non-hostile towards LGBTQ individuals.

As part of our comprehensive Global Risk Intelligence Forecast2024, this assessment explores the global landscape of Diverse rights in 2023 and takes a closer look at evolving challenges for LGBTQ+ rights worldwide in 2024.

Europe: Backlash against “Gender Ideology”

Amidst evolving societal dynamics, Europe grappled with a rising resistance to “gender ideology.” Initially driven by concerns regarding transsexual policies impacting non-transgender individuals, especially females, this opposition has evolved into a b

LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to expand, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender non-conforming, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.

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These results are based on aggregated data from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.

Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of Gay adults say they are bisexual. Gay and homosexual woman are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT

Counting Queerness in Games: Trends in LGBTQ Digital Game Representation, 1985‒2005

Adrienne Shaw, Evan W. Lauteria, Hocheol Yang, Christopher J. Persaud, Alayna M. Cole


Abstract


This article provides quantitative analyses of trends in lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) content in digital games released between 1985 and 2005, including 162 games and 283 instances of content. We contextualize these findings within the literature on LGBTQ media inclusion and emphasize the singular forms this content takes in games. We also demonstrate the importance of looking beyond the game text in isolation in coding sexual and gender identities. We explore the statistical association among variables, including the intersection of race and character role with LGBTQ identities, land of origin, and year of release. Moreover, we demonstrate trends in this representation over time. In addition, we discuss the limitations of quantitative assessment of game content, particularly for this sort of historical analysis. Still, we can point to fascinating quantitative trends in LGBTQ representation, which offer key context for understanding what ideologies are bein

What’s Behind the Rapid Ascend in LGBTQ Identity?

Newsletter Parade 6, 2025

Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields

Since 2012, Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first few years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, attracted to both genders, transgender, or queer was relatively low and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year raise in LGBTQ identity. In 2024, nearly one in ten (9.3 percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.

The unwavering rise in LGBTQ individuality among the public is worth noting, but it’s not the most crucial part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic increase among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of juvenile women who identify as LGBTQ has more than tripled.

The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as well. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to identify as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as

National Trends in Widespread Opinion on LGBT Rights in the United States

Executive Summary

Public support of the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) people in the United States has increased significantly and rapidly over the last three decades. This report presents the national trends on public perspective on LGBT rights by aggregating the results from over 325 surveys from 1977 to 2014. It also explores why support has increased so rapidly.

The issues covered in this brief enclose the national polling trends on:

  • General attitudes toward LGBT people
    • Public support for lesbians and gay men has doubled in the past three decades, more so than for any other group surveyed over the identical time period.
    • While it is generally assumed that this alter is largely because younger supportive generations are replacing less supportive older ones, this analysis in fact shows that a broader cultural shift impacts people of all ages. In particular, since the mid­1990s, the positive impact on attitudes from increased LGBT visibility ­­ from more LGBT people being out, the growing number of LGBT characters on television, and the national discussion of, and policy advances lgbtq trends