UK gay, lesbian and bisexual population revealed

Almost three-quarters of a million UK adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual - equivalent to 1.5% of the population, a survey suggests.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says 480,000 (1%) consider themselves gay or lesbian, and 245,000 (0.5%) bisexual.

The ONS received 450,000 responses in its new Integrated Household Survey.
The survey provides the biggest pool of social data in the UK after the Census, ONS says. ...

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I remember reading in an out of print David Wilkerson paperback book that he wrote back in the late 60's saying that there were 1 million known homosexuals in the world in 1967. He said, "known" homosexuals. The closet types numbers would have been staggering and still are.