If the LGBTQIA+ community has become a church for the new millennium, it is certainly attracting adherents across the world. A survey by Ipsos of 22,500 adults across 30 countries showed that nine per cent of adults now identified as LGBT+. Among Generation Z – those born after 1997 – the figure is even higher: 14 per cent claimed to be LGB, 2 per cent said they were asexual, and 6 per cent placed themselves somewhere under the transgender umbrella.
The impact on youngsters worries me
The survey makes it clear that ‘the visibility of LGBT+ people has increased’ in just a few years. In Pride month, this might come as little surprise: we are subjected to a constant barrage of ‘visibility’, with corporations and big businesses jumping on the bandwagon. But is this actually helpful for LGBT people like me? I fear it’s not and that, instead, we have moved beyond the point where individuals merely identify as LGBT+, and into a new world where they are defined by their sexuality or supposed gender identity.
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