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Democrats also reached an all-time high More Americans than ever — 67% — think same-sex marriage should be legally valid. It’s the highest ever reported support for everyone’s right to marry, regardless of sexual orientation. The data comes from Gallup’s annual Values and Morals poll. They conducted the poll from 1 – 10 May. Gallup first began asking about same-sex marriage in their morals and values poll in 1996. Then, only 27% of polled Americans supported legalizing it. Now, that feeling has jumped...

Less than half of Americans say they're comfortable with LGBT people Despite increased visibility and awareness, acceptance of LGBT people in America actually decreased in 2017. GLAAD and The Harris Poll’s fourth-annual Accelerating Acceptance report found that less than half (49%) of respondents said they were “somewhat” or “very” comfortable with queer people in different social situations, down from 53% in 2016. It’s the first decline since the report was launched in 2014, and is in contrast to studies that have shown...

A new Gallup poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a number of social issues this year, including acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships. The telephone poll on social issues, which Gallup has performed every year since 2001, shows new high levels of Americans saying that the way other people live is “morally acceptable.” Respondents are more likely now than in any year since 2001 to say they’re fine with birth control, divorce, sex outside of marriage, gay...

According to a new Gallup poll, the portion of American adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender increased to 4.1% in 2016 from 3.5% in 2012. Gallup’s analysis, drawn from the largest representative sample of LGBT Americans collected in the U.S., is based on interviews with a random sample of more than 1.6 million U.S. adults collected over five years. These figures imply that more than an estimated 10 million adults now identify as LGBT in the U.S. today, approximately...

You’d think bisexuals would have the world at their feet. But no. According to a new poll by sex toy purveyors Adam and Eve, practically half of adults say the idea of dating a bisexual makes them squirmy and uncomfortable. The data comes from a sex survey conducted by the company, who polled 1,000 Americans. What they found was slightly less than half of the participants (47%) would not want to enter into a relationship with someone who identified as bisexual. According to Pink...

A new study released by YouGov shows that a half of the U.K.’s young people aren’t “totally heterosexual,” and one-third of American adults under 30 feel the same way. The researches were using a modified Kinsey scale to define sexuality by asking guys and girls to place themselves on a range from ‘totally heterosexual’ to ‘totally homosexual.’ The results of the study show that overall 78% of American people say they are totally heterosexual while 4% define themselves as gay....