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More LGBT Americans living with a same-sex partner now report being married (45%) than did so in the months prior to the Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states (38%).

A majority of Americans favor inheritance rights and employee benefits for gay and lesbian spouses and partners, and gay and lesbian adoption rights. Less than half support openly gay adults serving as Boy Scout leaders.

Americans' views toward a number of moral issues have shifted significantly since 2001. But their acceptance of gay and lesbian relations has increased the most, up 19 percentage points in the past 12 years.

Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped significantly this year among some key demographic groups of Americans who helped him defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Even as moral attitudes in the U.S. become more socially liberal, several behaviors remain taboo. These include adultery, polygamy, human cloning and suicide, though American adults are slightly more likely to accept the last three.

A sharp rise over the past decade in young women who describe their political views as liberal, particularly relative to young men, is reflected most prominently in their attitudes on the environment and abortion.

Sixty-four percent of Americans believe gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal, the highest support Gallup has found to date. Slightly fewer, 56%, but still a new high, consider gay or lesbian relations morally ...

Public opinion changed in significant ways over the course of Barack Obama's presidency on issues such as the economy, trust in government and race relations.

Gallup's series on the gay community's well-being and status in the world produced a variety of important findings this week.

U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian, up from an estimate of 21% to 22% in 2002. Lower-income Americans, the least educated, women, and young people give the highest estimates, and demographics appear to be ...