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r/lgbtNSFW

r/lgbt: Reddit's home for the LGBTQ+ community. A safe space for GSRM (Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minority) folk to discuss their lives, issues, interests, and passions. LGBT is still a popular term used to discuss gender and sexual minorities, but all GSRM are welcome beyond lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who consent to participate in a safe space. Founded 2008 · 1.3M members

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 95.2K upvotes, which works out to 73 per 1,000 members.

73peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
95.2Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
1.3Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

42% 24% 16% 9%
Text 42% Image 24% Question 16% Gallery 9% Link 7% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Need Advice :snoo_thoughtful: 368 Selfie :snoo: 112 Art/Creative 76 :usrrainbowupvote: Coming Out! 36 Meme 32 :flag-united-states: US Specific 30 Community Only - Restricted 26 Educational 14 Politics 13 ⚠ Content Warning: {describe here} 12

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My parents chose to not attend their only daughter’s wedding and I couldn’t be happier. Sucks to be them!

↑ 95.2K 💬 1.3K image 2020

My Mum allowed me to put any flag on my wardrobe doors except for the Pride Flag. So, 241 flags later...

↑ 54.5K 💬 1.6K image 2021

My dad just DM'd me this meme lmao

↑ 47.2K 💬 358 image 2025

Love David Bowie

↑ 42.3K 💬 455 image 2021

North Dakota's first openly lesbian official defends her right to have the Pride flag flown in the city

↑ 40.3K 💬 840 video 2020

Magic Johnson's son

↑ 40.2K 💬 731 image 2017

"best friend"

↑ 40.1K 💬 380 image 2020

"The lack of Boomer LGBTQ+ People"

↑ 39.5K 💬 735 image 2023

It’s sad, but true…

↑ 36.9K 💬 426 image 2021

🏳️‍🌈🇯🇵 OSAKA HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; SAYS JAPAN'S BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

↑ 36.6K 💬 392 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/lgbt, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/lgbt?
r/lgbt ("r/lgbt: Reddit's home for the LGBTQ+ community") describes itself this way: A safe space for GSRM (Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minority) folk to discuss their lives, issues, interests, and passions. LGBT is still a popular term used to discuss gender and sexual minorities, but all GSRM are welcome beyond lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who consent to participate in a safe space. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.3M members.
How many members does r/lgbt have?
r/lgbt has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 95.2K upvotes, which is 73 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/lgbt?
"My parents chose to not attend their only daughter’s wedding and I couldn’t be happier. Sucks to be them!" reached 95.2K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/lgbt.
What subreddits are similar to r/lgbt?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl, r/goodnews.
What kind of posts do best on r/lgbt?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are text posts and 24% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/lgbt?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (15.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (13.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 09:00 UTC (13.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/lgbt?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/lgbt has 33.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 330 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/lgbt, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.