Advocate
by Trudy Ring
January 28, 2020
Young adults, cisgender women, and genderqueer or nonbinary people have embraced the term “queer” as their identifier in greater proportions than the LGBTQ community as a whole, according to a new study.
Six percent of sexual minority adults in the U.S. chose “queer” to describe their identity in the study conducted by the Williams Institute, a think tank on LGBTQ issues and the law at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. It was the first study to examine queer identity in a nationally representative sample.
Those who identify as queer, researchers found, are overwhelmingly cisgender women or genderqueer/nonbinary; they are also younger and more highly educated than other sexual minorities. Eighty-three percent of those identifying as queer were assigned female at birth. Seventy-six percent of queer people were age 18-25.
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