It just averages out I guess. Doesnt literally mean that out of every group of people, or town, is going to have 10 %.

The percentage I believe is based on Kinseys studies. Which has been a handful of decades. So who knows how that would stack up to a study on the subject now a days.

There are places I have lived where it was greater then 10 percent, places where I dont think there was even 1 percent. It just all depends on where you are.

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The fact stems from the Kinsey Report, 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male', 1948. However, Kinsey never made that claim. And part of his early studies of Homosexuals has been discredited because Kinsey interviewed a group of gay men who lived within the same community -a gay ghetto. So his study didn't represent society at large.

The most enduring and shocking finding of his study was the Kinsey scale from 0-6. You might place yourself at 0 totally straight or 6 totally gay or anywhere in between. Bisexuality was a shocking concept at the time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports

"10%" seems to be an arbitrary number that was picked up by the Gay Rights Movement and was often accredited to Kinsey. I'm sorry I don't know the origin. But it became a mantra of the Gay Rights Movement in the 70s. The ironic consequence is that the right wing homophobes immediately began to challenge the percentage, saying that it was much smaller than 10%. The irony being that for the first time many of these organizations were admitting to the scientific fact that homosexuality exists as a fact of human nature rather than choice, because a specific percentage might be determined.

The actual percentage is a moot point. Homosexual love is a difficult thing to determine against homosexual sex, and what have you. Kinsey viewed sexuality as constantly fluctuating, and he may be right in that regard.

I have read studies that asserted that 6-7% at the very least, is a constant in all cultures. But what is weird, is that whoever crunches the numbers, left or right, the percentage they come up with are consistent across cultures. Well, that isn't weird at all.

It is a feel good concept. We are a percentage, does it really matter how much? We exist. That's what 10% means. It's a difficult thing to argue for or against, and for the most part we come out ahead in that debate, if you will. So, "10%" can be held as a grail and a challenge.

Personally, I believe that 10% is accurate if maybe a bit low.

You know, most folks don't guess that I am gay. Even fellow queers. So, if I'm on the bus with 30 people, chances are that 3 of us are gay, me included. I can figure out who the other two are, but can you recognize me?
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> Because I ain't never seen 10%

Well then there's your problem. You're only using your eyes.

It's soooooooo much more than that. Maybe 10% are open about it but really, it's alot more.