{"id":1969124,"date":"2023-07-10T20:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/38-of-brown-university-students-dont-identify-as-straight-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T00:33:19","slug":"38-of-brown-university-students-dont-identify-as-straight-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/38-of-brown-university-students-dont-identify-as-straight-report\/","title":{"rendered":"38% of Brown University students do not identify as straight, according to a report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F38-of-brown-university-students-dont-identify-as-straight-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Over a Third of Brown University Students Identify as LGBTQ+<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a recent poll on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-eyewitness-account-from-the-stop-the-steal-event-at-the-us-capitol-including-a-memorial-to-ashli-babbit-pictures-video\/\" title=\"Another Eyewitness Account from the Stop the Steal Event at the US Capitol \u2014 Including a Memorial to Ashli Babbit (Pictures, Video)\">sexual orientation<\/a>, more than a third of the students at Brown University do not identify as straight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Brown Daily Herald, the Rhode Island-based university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-here-are-the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/\" title=\"Report: Here Are The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech\">student newspaper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/article\/2023\/06\/lgbtq-student-self-identification-has-doubled-since-2010-according-to-herald-polling-data\">reported<\/a> that LGBTQ+ student self-identification has doubled since 2010, as shown in its semesterly survey for spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight percent of respondents did not identify as straight and within this group, 22.9% reported being gay or lesbian, while 53.7% described themselves as bisexual, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The student newspaper explained that it first surveyed sexual orientation in the fall of 2010 and, in recent semesters, has expanded the number of options in recent surveys \u201cto better represent the Brown community.\u201d Additions include \u201cQueer,\u201d \u201cPansexual,\u201d \u201cAsexual\u201d and \u201cQuestioning\/Unsure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the inclusion of more options, The Brown Daily Herald said the number of respondents who self-identified as gay or lesbian within the subgroup has dropped from 46% in its fall 2010 survey. The publication also said students were \u201cmore likely to identify with a more diverse range of sexual orientations besides homosexual and bisexual in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some have said that students feel more comfortable about coming out, others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/38-of-brown-university-students-dont-identify-as-straight-report\/\" title=\"38% of Brown University students do not identify as straight, according to a report.\">argue social pressures fuel<\/a> the rise in LGBTQ+ identification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two theories, that greater tolerance is allowing more to come out of the closet, or [liberal comedian] Bill Maher\u2019s assertion that LGBT is trendy among some youth,\u201d Eric Kaufmann, a professor at the University of London, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/lgbt-identification-linked-to-social-pressure-political-scientist-finds\/\">told the College Fix last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufmann said he believes the second theory is a better fit for the data, as shown in a report he did as a research fellow for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-study-of-partisanship-and-ideology-cspi\/\">right-leaning<\/a> Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. \u201cIdentity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The latest survey of Brown University students follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/470708\/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx\">report last year by Gallup<\/a>, which found that \u201cLGBT identification\u201d has risen over the past decade across the United States. That survey found 7.2% of U.S. adults reported being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual. Roughly a fifth of the 19-25 age group, aka adult members of Generation Z, identified as members of the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not identify as straight, according to a recent poll on sexual orientation at Brown University. The Brown Daily Herald, the student newspaper of the Rhode Island-based university, revealed that LGBTQ+ student self-identification has doubled since 2010, as indicated by their spring 2023 survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1969125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}