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13-14 percent of Canadian teens acknowledge gay attraction

by Rex Wockner

International News

Fourteen percent of Canadian teenage girls and 13 percent of teenage boys are attracted to people of the same sex, a survey has found.
The Ipsos Reid poll results appeared in the January issue of Pediatrics and Child Health.
Asked if they were attracted to boys only, 86 percent of girls said yes. Asked if they were attracted to girls only, 87 percent of boys said yes.
The data was gathered in online interviews of 1,171 teens aged 14 to 17 and is accurate to within 2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, the pollsters said.

Assistance: Bill Kelley
Filed from San Diego

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