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When you dig into the data of several other surveys, it becomes even more apparent that the seemingly rising number of LGBT+ is due to the removal of stigma: Earlier surveys had shown that the group that saw the biggest growth among all are bisexual/pansexual people while the other groups saw much less growth.
From an article in Psychology Today from 2022:
An article in the Washington Post from 2021 makes the apparent "rise" of bisexuality/pansexuality even more obvious:
So people are much more open to talk about their sexual desires for people of the same sex once the stigma is removed, but - unfortunately for young men - that is less often the case for them, so they won't admit these feelings.
PS: Add that to the fact that women are much more likely to hold progressive politics than men.