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LGBTQ+ identification among U.S. adults has increased to 9.3%.

Almost six in 10 Americans support allowing openly transgender men and women to serve in the U.S. military, and nearly eight in 10 back women serving in combat roles.

While LGBTQ+ Americans view society as having become more accepting, one in four have received poor treatment or harassment in the past year.

Nearly half of people worldwide view their area as a good place for gay or lesbian people to live. Perceptions of acceptance have increased in 11 countries and decreased in 12.

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

A slim majority of U.S. adults say changing one's gender is morally wrong, but only about a third favor laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.

LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to inch up, with 7.6% of all U.S. adults, and more than one in five Gen Z adults, identifying this way.

LGBT Americans are more interested than non-LGBT adults in fostering or adoption, and are facing discrimination as a major barrier, reveals a 2023 Kidsave-Gallup study.

Gallup and Walton Family Foundation find LGB Gen Z adults face heightened anxiety, sadness, stress and loneliness compared with their peers.

For the first time in Gallup World Poll's trend dating back to 2006, a majority of people (52%) worldwide say their city or area is a "good place" for gay or lesbian people to live.

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.

Americans are less supportive than two years ago of transgender athletes being allowed to play on sports teams that match their current gender identity.

Seventy-one percent of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal, matching the high Gallup recorded in 2022.

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

Whether reflecting the remnants of the pandemic or the difficulty of inflation, Americans remain sour about the state of the union.

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

Where does the public stand on abortion, critical race theory and gender identity issues?

Half of the world's adults (50%) now say their city or area is a "good place" for gay and lesbian people to live -- a figure that has doubled over the past decade and represents a new high in Gallup World Poll's trend dating back to 2005.

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