They know each other, but are not close friends. David Funes, 25, and Joey Navedo, 30, are both entertainers living in New York, and they both have the most common type of dwarfism, achondroplasia.
Earlier this year, I met with two of them to discuss their lives: dating, sex, prejudice, aspirations. These are rough, rough estimates, but they do indicate just how small a minority gay little people inhabit. 000233 percent of the population, or one in every 430,000 people. If there are 15,000 men with dwarfism in America, and like the general population according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, five percent of them are predominantly attracted to men, that means there are 750 gay little men in America. Campbell estimates that the amount of little people are equally divided by sex.
There are about 30,000 little people in America, according to Joanna Campbell, executive director of the largest little people organization in the country, Little People of America.
