The Ivy League is not very heterosexual, notes Rod Dreher.
You'll see that the percentages of LGBTQ+ students nearly tripled at Brown from 2010 to 2023. And Penn is a lot more hetero than other Ivy schools.
What's going on? I have to suspect that white students who feel disadvantaged by their privilege in the college race are trying to stand out. If a 17-year-old declares themselves "queer," who can say they're not. "Neurodivergent" could work too, and there are a lot more college students declaring that "identity."
More than 7 percent of American adults say they're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or "other," a figure that's doubled since 2012, according to a 2023 Gallup survey. Most identify as "bisexual." Only 2.6 percent chose gay or lesbian.
However, it changes dramatically by age: 22.3 percent of Generation Z say they're not heterosexual. That falls to 2.3 percent for Baby Boomers.
LGBTQ+ is a meaningless term, writes Andrew Sullivan. It groups together people who have nothing in common, like calling Jews and Arabs the "Mideast community."
A 2022 Pew survey found that most "bisexual" people are functioning as heterosexuals, Sullivan notes. For example, 82 percent of bisexual men and women “who are married or living with a partner are in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender.”
LGBT Americans "are about as likely to be married to a different-sex spouse as to be married to a same-sex spouse,” reports Gallup.
And the higher Ed folks wonder why young men are staying away from college in droves...