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human
ELI5: Does the gay population increase over time due to certain factors, or has the gay population been staying constant in relation to the total population?

Don't quote me on this but I vaguely remember reading a theory that argues that whereas it was a survival necessity for men and women to reproduce a long time ago, in today's day and age we are suffering from over population and we no longer have to be forced to reproduce between men and women, so the gay population is predicted to increase over time as part of our evolution. I don't have the sources for this theory but I'm wondering if there's any truth to this?
gpt
It is likely that the population of people who identify as LGBT is relatively constant.  Increased acceptance leads to more of that population coming out as openly LGBT, where in decades past those individuals might have not openly identified as such.