As culture confronts a widening variety of policy problems that uniquely affect intimate minorities, accurate clinical information on the lesbian, gay, and bisexual populace will still be required by federal government officials, the courts, and legislative systems.

Personal and behavioral scientists involved in this area have actually very long recognized the worth of information gathered through probability sampling practices while having utilized many different imaginative techniques in the past two years to get data that are such. The present article extends these efforts in reporting what is perhaps the most extensive description to date of a national probability sample of self identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the USA. (more…)