Are there more gay people in the world or straight people?

Straight -- or at least primarily heterosexual.

Research suggests that about 2% to 6% of us are primarily or exclusively homosexual. Something less than 10% of us are primarily or exclusively hexterosexual. That means the rest of us (about 80%) are capable of sex with either men or women -- even if we don't necessarily go through with it.

Just to complicate things further, males between puberty and their mid-20's are more likely to experiment with both heterosexual and homosexual sex than older men, maybe as many as 75%! And the majority of adults, at least in the US, have had more than one sexual partner.

Still, it appears that most of us eventually settle into long-term heterosexual relationships. So part of the problem is one of definition. If you consider anyone who has everhad a homosexual experience to be gay, there are a lot of us. But if you only count those of us who've been "primarily or exclusively" homosexual for most of our adult lives, fewer than 10% of us are gay.