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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2008, 10:29:35 am »
Thanks very much for your two comments moremojo!!

Just saw that site for the Foundation. I think that is a great idea!!

Maybe we at Bettermost can do something like that?

As one subject could be that to give funds or create a contest for the creation of posters in order for gays and others to use condoms and or other safe sex usage??

Any other ideas from toi and from all others too??

If we are 5 to 10 per cent or more, we can surely try to help... and we can make efforts at least!!

More please, and merci encore,

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2008, 12:41:54 pm »
More please, and merci encore,
Some names that came to mind over the weekend:

Melissa Etheridge
Amanda Bearse
Kate Clinton
Kate Bornstein
Pat Califia
Portia de Rossi
RuPaul
Chi Chi LaRue
Divine
Rod McKuen
Roddy McDowall
Anthony Perkins
Alejandro Moseley
Kristen Bjorn
Robert Mizer
George Platt Lynes
Boyd McDonald
James Whale
David Hockney
Derek Jarman

Note: Not all of these personages were/are American.

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2008, 12:49:06 pm »
Great and thanks very much again moremojo!!

Any Canadian/Canadienne ones??

Any First Nations: Canada, USA, elsewhere??

Other americans...

hugs!!  It is grand to read names of gay men and women in our gay community!!

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #53 on: February 05, 2008, 01:44:29 am »
This is interesting:

I'm quoting from my Psychology textbook (which has this most interesting section about homosexuality):
"In a 2002 Gallup survey, the average American estimated that 21 percent of men are gay and 22 percent of women are lesbian (Robinson, 2002). But in both Europe and the United States, more than a dozen national surveys in the early 1990s explored sexual orientation, using methods that protected the respondent's anonymity. Their results agree in suggesting that a more accurate figure is about 3 or 5 percent of men and 1 or 2 percent of women (Laumann & others, 1994; National Center for Health Statistics, 1991; Smith 1998). Estimates derived from the sex of unmarried partners reported in the 2000 U.S. Census suggest that 2.5 percent of the population is gay or lesbian (Tarmann, 2002)."

Of course, no textbook is one-hundred percent right about things. And statistics can be somewhat misleading. As long as there are gay people who are unwilling to admit their sexual orientation, no survey is going to be truly accurate about things like this.

Anyway...just felt like sharing with you all.

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2008, 11:14:16 am »
Thanks twocowboywaltz!

That is very interesting!

That data is about surveys! What is an Gallup survey? That is done by the Federal Government in the USA?

Any information about Canada in it??

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #55 on: February 23, 2008, 07:14:29 pm »
There are many, many gay men and lesbians in the USA!!

So, will you make your vote count to choose which for which party??

Hugs!


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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #56 on: March 07, 2008, 11:17:52 pm »
I still think that we are more than 10 per cent!

Maybe?

Au revoir,

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #57 on: March 15, 2008, 11:23:58 am »
Any recent surveys in the uSA?

Maybe that will start so we know how many gays?

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #58 on: March 28, 2008, 10:29:12 pm »
Any more news?

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Re: We gay men are MORE than 10 per cent?
« Reply #59 on: April 12, 2008, 07:33:44 pm »
I think that we must be at least 10 per cent !!

Anyone else thinks so too?