CNSNews.com is reporting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released its first ever large-scale survey of Americans regarding their sexual orientation. The 2013 National Health Interview Survey conducted 34,577 face-to-face interviews, with some follow-up phone calls, which revealed that only 1.6 percent of Americans identify themselves as homosexuals compared to 96.6 percent who say they are heterosexual.

Only 0.7 percent of adults in the CDC study identified themselves as bisexual and another 1.1 percent said they were either "something else", didn't know or refused to answer the question.

This survey dispels the long-standing myth that as many as 10 percent of the population is homosexual, a rumor started years ago by the discredited sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey.

However, in spite of much research to the contrary, the American public still largely believes these inflated numbers.

As CNS reports, a 2011 Gallup survey found that 52 percent of Americans believed that 25 percent of the population was either gay or lesbian. Only four percent believed the homosexual population was below five percent.

As expected, the homosexual community reacted to the survey with skepticism.

Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, disputed the CDC findings, insisting that even in spite of this administration's unprecedented support of the LGBT population, many homosexuals were too afraid to identify themselves as such in a government survey.

“These numbers undercount the nation’s LGB population,” Sainz claimed. “There’s still a tremendous amount of stigma that may prevent LGB individuals from expressing themselves honestly in a government survey.”

CNS quotes Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center, appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier to explain why there is such a huge disparity between public perception and reality when it comes to the homosexual population in America.

“This is the ultimate media disconnect. Both news and entertainment bombard Americans with images of gay weddings, gay adoptions, and transgender triumphs, all claiming to be what NBC called ‘the new normal,’” Gainor said. “The CDC numbers prove what we’ve been told might describe Hollywood, but not the rest of America.”

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