Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg other than heterosexual.
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AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
The percentage of U.S. adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr has creased to 7.1%. This is driven by high LGBT self-intifitn, particularly as bisexual, among Generatn Z adults. * lgbt poll *
The young adults are g of age, cludg g to terms wh their sexualy or genr inty, at a time when Amerins creasgly accept gays, lbians and transgenr people, and LGBT dividuals enjoy creasg legal protectn agast discrimatn.
Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * lgbt poll *
Thkg about how the gay marriage issue might affect your vote for major offic, would you -- [ROTATED: only vote for a ndidate who shar your views on gay marriage, nsir a ndidate's posn on gay marriage as jt one of many important factors when votg, or would you not see gay marriage as a major issue?
Public opn polls and surveys about LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) topics. * lgbt poll *
Do you personally thk -- [ROTATED: gays should be allowed to serve openly the ary, gays should be allowed to serve unr the current policy or gays should not be allowed to serve the ary unr any circumstanc]? Which of the followg arrangements between gay or lbian upl do you thk should be regnized as legally valid -- same-sex marriag, civil unns, but not same-sex marriag, or neher same-sex marriag nor civil unns? Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage.
* lgbt poll *
Majori thk at least some discrimatn exists today agast people who are gay and lbian and those who are transgenr, and paratively, more see "a lot" of discrimatn agast transgenr people specifilly. Durg the earlier days of the bate over same-sex marriage and before was legal natnwi, our pollg found people who knew someone who is gay or lbian were more supportive of legal marriage for same-sex upl pared to those who did not know someone.
And 2013, when those who once opposed same-sex marriage were asked why they changed their md to supportg , knowg someone who was gay or lbian was among the top answers, same sex marriage is supported by a majory of Amerins and has been for nearly a . The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.