Latinx Millennials Are Most Likely to Identify as LGBTQ

In a nationally representative survey of over 1,700 young adults aged 18-34, The University of Chicago's GenForward Project sought to discover how millennials sexually identify.

According to the survey, 14 percent of millennials in the United States identify as LGBTQ. However, there are big differences when broken down by race, with Latinx millennials identifying as LGBTQ at a rate of 22 percent. That's compared to only 9 percent of Asian-Americans, 13 percent of whites, and 14 percent of African-Americans identifyng as LGBTQ.

"We were excited that the differences emerged. Often millenials are talked about as a monolithic or homogeneous group where everyone is more or less the same," Vlad Medenica, a postdoctoral researcher who worked on the report, told NBC News.

He continued: "One of the aims of our survey is to dig a bit deeper and see how race and ethnicity shape people’s experiences. The fact that Latinx millennials are least likely to identify as straight is a reflection of how important exploring this difference is."

When describing itself and the necessity of its research, GenForward writes, "Given the importance of race and ethnicity for shaping the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of young people, we believe researchers make a mistake when they present data on young adults in a manner that assumes a monolithic Millennial generation and young adult vote."

Well, it looks like the millennial generation is the queerest gen of the past couple centuries, and the Latinx population is the queerest of the queer!