Originally Posted by StarrManUK:
“Gay people are a minority yet on BB 2 of the 13 housemates are gay. That works out 15%, surely that is not a reflection of reality, 15% of people aren't gay!”
Hold my hand and I'll take you on a guided tour of various demographic studies detailed by the Kinsey institute:
Laumann et al (1994) found that 9% of men and 4% of women reported having engaged in at least one same-gender sexual activity since puberty. Given the identity category choices of heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or something else, 2.8% of men and 1.4% of women surveyed reported "some level of homosexual identity."
Gonsierek et al (1995) reviewed the literature and critiqued surveys of homosexual activity from Kinsey in 1948 to the 1994 study by Laumann, et al. Because of the possible risks involved in self-disclosure, it is posited that the recurrent 2-5% for same-gender sexual behavior in the studies reviewed represents a minimum figure. They suggest that the current prevalence of predominant same-sex orientation is 4-17%.
Sells et al (1995) reported 6.2% of males and 3.6% of females with "sexual contact with someone of the same sex only or with both sexes in the previous five years," and 20.8% of U.S. males and 17.8% of U.S. females with some homosexual behavior or some homosexual attraction since age 15
and then finally a
telephone survey (strange, I know but only in Australia eh?

)
Men
Gay - 1.6%
Bisexual - 0.9%
Same-sex attraction experience/attraction - 8.6%
Women
Gay - 0.8%
Bisexual - 1.4%
Same-sex attraction experience/attraction - 15.1%
The premise of your question falls because alot of people do not like being labelled as gay, straight, bisexual or whatever. Why is there a constant need to pigeon hole people so they conform to society's strictures?