While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell a consistent story.Īt least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men.
Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.īut somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions. WHAT percent of American men are gay? This question is notoriously difficult to answer.
