{"id":2105,"date":"2015-08-23T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:53:05","slug":"study-finds-1-in-3-american-young-adults-identify-on-bisexual-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2105","title":{"rendered":"Study finds 1 in 3 American young adults identify on bisexual spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A YouGov poll has found that 1 in 3 American young adults identifies as not completely heterosexual. Using a modified Kinsey scale, the researchers asked participants about their identification and their experiences. Here are the results broken down:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2106 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS.png\" alt=\"kinseyUS\" width=\"1313\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS.png 1313w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-665x517.png 665w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-500x388.png 500w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-315x245.png 315w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-200x155.png 200w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kinseyUS-900x699.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1313px) 100vw, 1313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2015\/08\/20\/third-young-americans-exclusively-heterosexual\/\">The full results can be read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the study found that young adults were significantly more likely to identify as non-heterosexual and that 12 percent had had some form of same sex encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a discussion from Huffpost Live:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.live.huffingtonpost.com\/HPLEmbedPlayer\/?segmentId=55d380c802a7602b210000ea&amp;autoPlay=false\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A YouGov poll has found that 1 in 3 American young adults identifies as not completely heterosexual. Using a modified Kinsey scale, the researchers asked participants about their identification and their experiences. Here are the results broken down: The full results can be read here. Additionally, the study found that young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[313,312,76,314],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-bisexual","tag-kinsey","tag-study","tag-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}