Table 3.
Sexual identity by sexual behavior (i.e., most recent sexual partners) among sexually active youtha (n = 1,538)
| Girls (n = 808) |
Boys (n = 730) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent same-gender partners
only (n = 162) |
Recent different gender partners
only (n = 572) |
Recent partners of both
genders (n = 74) |
Recent same-gender partners
only (n = 416) |
Recent different gender partners
only (n = 297) |
Recent partners of both
genders (n = 17) |
||
| Sexual identity | % | % | % | Sexual identity | % | % | % |
| Gay (n=37) | 63.8 | 35.2 | 1.0 | Gay (n=407) | 96.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Lesbian (n=180) | 68.3 | 13.1 | 18.7 | Lesbian (n=1) | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| Bisexual (n=283) | 15.2 | 63.8 | 20.9 | Bisexual (n=61) | 69.6 | 20.2 | 10.2 |
| Questioning (n=93) | 32.2 | 54.8 | 12.9 | Questioning (n=29) | 74.1 | 10.1 | 15.8 |
| Queer (n=58) | 48.8 | 45.6 | 5.6 | Queer (n=67) | 95.1 | 1.0 | 3.9 |
| Other (n=37) | 26.0 | 39.9 | 34.1 | Other (n=23) | 83.5 | 14.9 | 1.6 |
| Not sure (n=25) | 32.5 | 59.4 | 8.1 | Not sure (n=7) | 78.8 | 21.2 | 0 |
| Straight/heterosexual (n=401) | 3.9 | 94 | 2.1 | Straight/heterosexual (n=296) | 6.5 | 92.7 | .79 |
Youth were asked the gender of their two most recent sexual partners. Sexual partners reported here are limited to only those who were cisgender.
Data include all respondents (Harris Panel OnLine + Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) and weighted to allow comparisons across identities
Note: Percentages are the percentage of youth in a given sexual identity who had a given sex partner (e.g. 64% of gay-identified girls reported a recent same-gender partner). Also, the percentage of youth who had a recent male or female sex partner differs slightly in this paper than an earlier published manuscript using the same data because there,32 one’s most recent sexual partner was included whereas here, the two most recent partners were included.