‘Everyone will be gay in 2054,” quipped Bill Maher acerbically on a recent segment of his show. “No one will be straight anymore,” in four or five generations, Marjorie Taylor Greene warned recently on her MTG: Live broadcast. Both drew on Gallup surveys showing that the share of Gen-Z (currently ages 18–25) identifying as LGBTQ has doubled in the past five years to more than a fifth of young people. Maher claimed that much of the increase is owing to the fact that it’s trendy for young people to identify as something other than heterosexual. Why, he wondered, are young people in Ohio less gay than their counterparts in California?
A close look at the data shows that Maher is right.
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