This statistic shows the results of a 2012 survey among more than 90,000 respondents who are members of the LGBT community in all 27 European Union member states and Croatia. They were asked if they hid their sexual orientation when they were a kid in school. 81 percent of respondents in Lithuania said they hid or disguised the fact that they were a member of the LGBT community when they were a kid in school.
LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country)
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Fundamental Rights Agency. (May 20, 2013). LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/
Fundamental Rights Agency. "LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country)." Chart. May 20, 2013. Statista. Accessed May 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/
Fundamental Rights Agency. (2013). LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/
Fundamental Rights Agency. "Lgbt People - Did You Hide Your Sexual Orientation When You Were a Kid in School? (by Country)." Statista, Statista Inc., 20 May 2013, https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/
Fundamental Rights Agency, LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/ (last visited May 23, 2024)
LGBT people - Did you hide your sexual orientation when you were a kid in school? (by country) [Graph], Fundamental Rights Agency, May 20, 2013. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/259095/lgbt-hiding-ones-sexual-orientation-in-school/