Around 1 in 10 U.S. adults now identify as LGBT ⭐, with substantial regional variation that reflects differences in safety, stigma, migration, and willingness to disclose rather than “true” underlying orientation. Higher visible concentrations in certain states or cities are driven mainly by selective migration and social context, and common claims that these places are “making people gay” or that LGBT people are evenly distributed but just hidden are oversimplified or wrong.[1][2][3][4][5][6]