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Originally posted by IheartBB
about 10% of the british populatuion are gay, so if 10% of all BB housemates are gay too, that is a pretty fair representation.
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No. Not even close.
Yes, it is not the easiest statistic to get a handle on but in recent decades there have been plenty of companies spending plenty of cash trying to find out. Especially since it is believed that gays are an excellent cash-spending demographic to find,
but,
the best (and most expensive) studies using the best possible anonymity schemes and using the best researchers come out with something like:
between 1% to 3% describe themselves as having participated in homosexuality at some time.
Here comes the 'interpretation' issue though - this is the responders opinion and definition. In other words, this could be someone who touched wieners with another boy back in Scouts but in his estimation, despite being married for 20 years and never having any other 'homosexual experience' he believes this qualifies him to answer:
Yes, I have had an ongoing homosexual relationship.
You and me might say that doesn't really count as a 'homosexual'.
Okay.
But some of the better surveys did try and narrow that down to a more specific:
Are you now and intend to be actively living a homosexual preference type of question.
These surveys can come up with around 1%
Around 1 in 100 people are what we might call 'decidedly gay'.
This does about square with what we came up with years and years ago when I was helping out in the marketing dept. We didn't have any scientific surveys.
Actually we had no idea and basically used a phone book. Our best available indicator.
We went through listings and newspapers trying to find the ratio of gay services and nightclubs.
Not an exact science of course - gays may ALSO go to a regular 'singles' nightclub and many straight women fill 'gay clubs',
but,
we did approximate around 300 nightclubs in the region and could narrow down 3 or 4 gay bars (as called).
For around 300 bookstores we found 3 or 4 'gay bookstores',
and,
out of about 300 festivals/events/parades each year we could find around 3 or 4 'gay theme' parallels.
So out of 20 HMs it would seem reflecting society in general if you maybe had 1 gay or lesbian.
Actually less but lets round it up to at least 1 per season.
Again.. you can quickly get into a very large 'grey area' if you are going to try and find that % who (like Roddy) may have once had a threesome and does that make them what... a bisexual?
A girl who experimented in university?
Maybe that is another HM per season then.