Broken down over time,
the LGBT population of America seems to be roughly doubling every generation.
According to a recent Gallup poll, less than 1% of Americans born
before 1946 that's Joe Biden's generation identify that way,
2.6% of boomers do, 4.2% of gen x, 10.5% of millennials and 20.8% of gen z.
Which means if we follow this trajectory, we will all be gay in 2054.
>> [LAUGH] >> If you attend a small dinner party of
typically very liberal, upper income Angelenos, it is not uncommon to
hear parents who each have a trans kid having a conversation about that.
What are the odds of that happening in Youngstown Ohio?
If this Spike and trans children is all natural, why is it regional?
Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.
>> [LAUGH] [APPLAUSE] >> Okay, so for all the issues that I have
with Bill Maher and his focus on this and him apparently not having a thought about
whether there might be regional shaming that is reducing the numbers or whatever.
The fact that he can say something like that,
knowing that his audience is going to laugh at the joke.
Was that a joke?
Was that a point?
Was that witty?
Was that incisive?
But his audience did like it, he does know his audience.
That is the last, the only for many of these political comedians,
the skill that they have is knowing what their audience wants to hear.
Bill Maher has had it with the fact that people
in the LGBTQ community feel like they can acknowledge that.
And even if he had, let's say that he had a point, let's say that there was for
some young people that they don't know exactly what they're gonna identify as
when they're 40, but they briefly think that they're something.
One of members of these groups.
Why is Bill Mark here?
Why is Bill Maher so many right wingers care so much about that?
If some freshman high schooler calls herself a lesbian and
isn't sure enough of that for
Bill Maher's standards, why does he care about that?
But he does care about that, he really does care as so many right wingers do.
Their life turns based on your self identification Francesca.
>> Absolutely, I mean, again, stop telling on yourself.
What are you trying to say?
Are you trying to say that you care about the sexuality of high schoolers and
kids because that's weird, or are you trying to say that you yourself.
Or angry that you don't live or you didn't grow up at a time
when it was a little bit minimally more free to come out and
be yourself and live your own truth, is that what's going on here?
Right, that you're mad that other people live in a more accepting society, but
that's exactly right, that point about either Ohio is shaming them, yeah.
Ohio and many, many, many states are consistently
shaming trans kids, gay kids for their being themselves.
And so it's funny because he's in California, he's filming in LA,
and a lot of his audience are tourists who are visiting LA.
And they sort of get barked in from the Santa Monica Pier and sent.
>> [LAUGH] >> Like free tickets straight up.
This is how he feels the studio audience begging them to come in.
They're all like Midwesterners who are coming to California being like
look at all the gays, meanwhile their kids are gay and they're trying to shame them.
It's just a weird really, really,
really bizarre concoction of comedy in the heaviest quotes.
>> Exactly.
>> Possible, and it just, again, he's such a resentful boomer.
>> I know, if you're just get out of comedy before this becomes what you are.
He could have just retired with his millions in the late nineties and
he wouldn't continually just show us who he is.
And Brett is pointing out like he talks constantly Maher does about not wanting
to have kids.
But he's really curious about your kids.
>> Seriously. That is a great point, by the way,
he does that chart where he shows the generations.
And notice that he is way more aggrieved by the fact that the current
generation says they're 20% LGBTQ when really maybe it's like 18.
He's way more aggrieved by that than the generation that was 1%.
>> Right. >> When that definitely wasn't anything
like what it was.
And think about all of what was happening socially to suppress those numbers down to
their, that doesn't bother him nearly as much interestingly.
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