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The most important stories on Gallup.com in 2013 span politics, well-being, the economy, and education.

An unprecedented Gallup study involving more than 120,000 interviews finds that 3.4% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; the highest incidence is among those who are nonwhite, younger, and less educated.

Read about how job approval for congressional representatives relates to voter turnout, life in North Dakota, good places and bad places for gays and lesbians to live worldwide, and more in this week's review.

According to Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport, 55% of Americans support same-sex marriage, the highest on record, reflecting Americans' changing perspective on gay marriage.

Christians' reluctance to back a presidential candidate who is gay, an atheist, a socialist or Muslim may limit these candidates' chances nationally. Nonreligious Americans' coolness toward evangelicals dampens their chances.

A new high of 61% of Americans say having a baby outside of marriage is morally acceptable, while 35% say it is morally wrong. This is a reversal from 2002, when more said it was morally wrong (50%) than said it was morally acceptable (45%).

Two years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, 10.2% of LGBT Americans are now married to a same-sex partner, up from 7.9% before the ruling.

Americans' satisfaction with a variety of aspects of U.S. life and public policy areas remains depressed from 2020, with many declining further since 2021.

Americans who personally know someone who is gay or lesbian are more likely than those who do not to support legalized gay marriage, 49% to 27%. They are also more likely to think gay or lesbian relations should be legal and to be comfortable ...

For the first time in Gallup's tracking of the issue, a majority of Americans (53%) believe same-sex marriage should be recognized by the law as valid. The increase from 44% last year came exclusively from political independents and Democrats. ...