Almost half of 18-to-24-year-olds don’t consider themselves ‘completely straight’

Two new studies, one performed in the US and the other in the UK, have revealed a lot about how millennials identify their sexuality.

Across the water, the UK survey (performed by YouGov) found that overall 23 percent of those surveyed registered themselves as something other than "completely straight". However, that number rose to 46 percent among 18-to-24 year-olds. Those surveyed were asked to place themselves on the Kinsey Scale, which designates a number to a level of sexual preference, with zero being 100 percent heterosexual and six being 100 percent homosexual. Meanwhile, 23 percent of those who assigned themselves as one on the scale had a same-sex experience. And over in the US, a survey of more than 2,000 adults of all ages and performed by GLAAD, showed that millenials were almost twice as likely to identify on the LGBTQ scale when compared to other age groups.

• On average, 12 percent of entire population identified as LGBTQ.
• 20 percent of 18-34 year-olds identified as "not heterosexual".
• This fell to 12 percent for 35-51 year-olds, 7 percent for 52-71 year-olds, and 5 percent for 72-year-olds and over.

Of that 20 percent of 18-34 year olds, that broke down to: six percent identified as bisexual, four percent as asexual, three percent as strictly gay/lesbian, two percent as pansexual, and five percent as unsure/questioning.