Pertaining to this aspect, significant minorities regarding the respondents that are bisexual they never ever (4.6% of bisexual females, 8.1% of bisexual guys) or seldom (34.9% and 20.7%, correspondingly) utilized Bisexual as a self descriptor. By comparison, guys whom indicated they certainly were homosexual overwhelmingly reported utilising the term Gay to explain by themselves at the very least a few of the time. Likewise, around three fourths of homosexual women used Lesbian as being a self label, and approximately the exact same percentage used Gay as a self descriptor. The second choosing is significantly astonishing because Gay has usually been thought become mainly a male oriented identification label ( ag e.g., Kulick 2000).

Other habits of self labeling also warrant comment. The definition of Queer was utilized by merely a little minority of participants, since had been the truth for Dyke among female respondents.

Significantly more participants (one or more 3rd of homosexual males and lesbians) used Homosexual being a self descriptor at the least a few of the time. Particularly, homosexual male and lesbian participants had been greatly predisposed to state they never utilized Queer as a self descriptor (58.9% of homosexual men, 65% of lesbians) rather than state they never used Homosexual (32% and 34.1%, correspondingly). Continua a leggere