Gallup: 3.4% of US adults are LGBT

[bhikkhu]

12. Far more widespread, as in close to 100%

just not identified as such. Plenty of "normal" behavior has more or less homoerotic elements. I think the most sensible perspective I have heard came from Gore Vidal, who said:

"But what I was saying, that early on, before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything. And I was talking about the normality..."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/08/04/npr-warmly-recalls-gore-vidal-denouncing-america-very-primitive-country-#ixzz29hskrvSu

Of course, acting on ones thoughts is one thing, but having that switch there but always turned off and never on is another thing (the Mormon trick hilariously parodied here:

). People are entitled to their self-identity, to be sure, but the biology suggests we all are born with all options open, and social trends are towards more personal and interpersonal variety and freedom.