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Just over half of Americans said they are satisfied with the nation's acceptance of gay and lesbian people, the lowest rate since 2013.
Americans' satisfaction with the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. has reached its lowest point in over a decade.
Just over half of Americans (51 percent) said they are satisfied with the nation's acceptance of gay and lesbian people, according to Gallup’s annual State of the Nation Survey, dropping 11 points from 2022's record high of nearly two-thirds (62 percent). Two in five Americans (40 percent), said they are dissatisfied with the level of acceptance.
This is the lowest rate of satisfaction since 2013, two years before the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark case legalizing national marriage equality, when just under half (49 percent) of Americans said they were satisfied with national attitudes towards gay and lesbian people.
The answers seemingly reflect the partisan divide on gay and lesbian issues, as 55 percent of respondents who said they identified as or leaned Republican reported being satisfied with current levels of acceptance, in comparison to just 43 percent of respondents who identified as or leaned Democrat.
This partisan split was also present in other areas of the survey, including attitudes around gun laws, the position of Black and other racial minorities, the position of women, the influence of organized religion, and the quality of the environment.
Significantly fewer respondents were satisfied with the acceptance of transgender people in society, with less than two in five (38 percent) saying that they are satisfied, and half (50 percent) saying they are dissatisfied. This was up slightly from last year, which was the first year Gallup surveyed attitudes towards trans acceptance. Over two in five (42 percent) of Republicans said they were satisfied, compared to one-third (31 percent) of Democrats.
Gallup’s annual Mood of the Nation Survey collected responses from 1,005 adults in all 50 states, and was conducted in January shortly before Donald Trump took office. It does not track the reasons for respondents' answers.
