Demographer Gary Gates, who works for the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, has compiled the results from nine surveys that attempt to measure sexual orientation — five of them from the U.S. He estimates that 3.5% of the U.S. population identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, while 0.3% are transgender. … He also points out that bisexual identification is generally more common among women than among men.
However, in the modern century, LGBT is still considered as a sensitive issue and lots of heterosexuals are homophobia. How about societal attitudes toward homosexuality? More than 95% homosexuals, specially youth, are discriminated, harassed or even suffered violence. Despite all those things, LGBT community always fights for their right, try hard to contribute social life and beside that, there are still much heterosexuals who support for them. The final achievement that all of them want to get is to be equality and recognition.
Back to ages before, same – sex has appeared for long time. A collection of historical and ethnographic documentation of the culture period Previous Industry shows that 41% of 42 cultures protested, 21% agreed and 12% had no concept about that. The famous romantic and tragic love story between Hàn Āi Dì Emperor and Dǒng Xián is the example in history of China. At the Renaissance, in some cities at the north of Italy such as Firenze and Venezia, many residents in those cities were homosexual or bisexual and this was normal. Homosexuality was also found in works of art, literature and myths of Ancient Greek. Because all of that, LGBT or homosexual which has been exist among human beings’ life for ages is not a temporary movement and no one can refuse it.
Few years ago, LGBT was known as a bad image with drugs, alcohol and unsafe sex. These terrible things contributed to the prevention