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Married or cohabiting U.S. adults in LGBQ+ relationships face greater stress than those in heterosexual relationships, implying different pandemic responses.

The share of LGBTQ+ Americans who are married to their same-sex partner versus living together is down from the peak shortly after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages. But it remains higher than before the 2015 ruling.

Gallup estimates that 7.2% of the U.S. adult population is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual.

Americans remain largely supportive of the legalization of same-sex marriages, and a majority believe gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable.

Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable of 19 issues measured, and extramarital affairs and cloning humans the most morally wrong.

U.S. adults increasingly believe the American public supports same-sex marriage, with 48% saying so -- a higher percentage than Gallup found in three polls over the prior decade.

Views on the morality of a variety of practices are largely stable, though fewer say same-sex relations are morally OK and more say the death penalty is.

A majority of Americans support the concept behind the Equality Act, a bill recently passed by the House that would ban LGBT discrimination.

Americans today have very different views about LGBT issues than they did in 1977, when Gallup first polled about gays and lesbians.

U.S. support for legal same-sex marriage continues to grow, now at 70% -- a new high in Gallup's trend dating to 1996.