GLAAD dishonors itself by falsely inflating its numbers. It considers straight men who have homosexual sex in prison and girls who have kissed another girl as being LGBTQ. The 5% figure is scientifically based and an accurate analysis of human sexuality.
"Although 5% of the United State population identifies as LGBTQ, according to a Gallup survey, roughly 20% of American adults under the age of 40 identify as LGBTQ, according to GLAAD."
GLAAD's methodology is not scientifically legitimate:
https://www.glaad.org/files/aa/2017_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf
Methodology
The survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on
behalf of GLAAD.
The 2016 survey was fielded from November 2-4, 2016 among 2,037 adults ages
18 and older, including 1,708 adults who self-identified as heterosexual (i.e., the
non-LGBTQ sample). 100 respondents were not classified in regards to LGBTQA
status because they declined to answer for gender identity and sexual orientation
and therefore were not included in this analysis.
For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup
sample sizes, please contact Matt Goodman, GLAAD’s Associate Director of
Communications, at mgoodman@glaad.org.