LGBTQ Europe: share of respondents indicating they know an LGBTQ person in 2019

There is a clear divide in survey respondents who come from the older EU member states who joined before 2004 and those joining after in indicating whether they have friends who are part of the LGBTQ community. In countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, over 80 percent of respondents indicate they have a friend or acquaintance who is gay, lesbian or bisexual, while the United Kingdom is the country with the greatest share of respondents saying they know a transgender person. At the other end of the scale are Bulgaria and Romania, which both joined the EU in 2007, who have 10 and 8 percent of respondents indicating they know a homosexual person respectively. The share of respondents saying they know a transgender or intersex person in the newer EU member states was even lower, with Lithuania being the country with the smallest share knowing a trans person, at only two percent.

在调查受访者中，明显存在着一种差异，即来自2004年之前加入欧盟的较老成员国与之后加入的成员国在表示他们是否有来自LGBTQ社群的朋友方面的分歧。在荷兰和瑞典等国家，超过80%的受访者表示他们有同性恋、女同性恋或双性恋的朋友或熟人，而英国则是受访者中表示认识跨性别者比例最高的国家。在另一个极端，2007年加入欧盟的保加利亚和罗马尼亚，分别有10%和8%的受访者表示他们认识同性恋者。在新加入欧盟的成员国中，表示认识跨性别或间性人的受访者比例更低，立陶宛是受访者中认识跨性别者比例最低的国家，仅为2%。