Search Results

In 2016, 4.1% of American adults identified as LGBT, up from 3.5% in 2012. An estimated 10 million adults identify as LGBT in the U.S. Millennials and women largely drove the increases in LGBT identification.

Americans are about evenly divided on both the need for new civil rights laws to protect LGBT people and on restroom policies for transgender individuals.

Americans' support for legalizing marijuana continues to set new records, with 66% of U.S. adults now in favor of making the drug legal.

Birth control, divorce, sex between unmarried people and gambling are among the issues Americans are most likely to find "morally acceptable." Lowest on this list are polygamy, extramarital affairs, and cloning animals and humans.

A slim majority of Americans say they would like their senators to vote to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.

Eighty-two percent of U.S. Catholics -- and 89% of all Americans -- say birth control is morally acceptable, making it the most acceptable of 18 behaviors Gallup asked about in its May Values and Beliefs survey.

Americans view Russia slightly more favorably now than they did in 2015, yet these favorability ratings are still half as high as they were a decade ago. U.S. adults also are less likely to see Russia as a critical threat to the U.S.

Gallup editors highlight the 10 most important U.S. health and well-being findings from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index in 2014.

A majority of Americans now say the government should not favor any set of values, while 44% believe it should promote traditional values. This marks a shift from 1993-2004, when a majority advocated promoting traditional values.

Americans are evenly divided over the morality of homosexual relations, with 48% considering them morally acceptable and 48% calling them morally wrong.