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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
About this projectPew Research Center conducted this study to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the United States 10 years after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The survey explores how LGBTQ adults see the impact of Obergefell, how they view social acceptance for LGBTQ adults more broadly, and their personal experiences.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
When it comes to how much social acceptance there is for people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, nonbinary or transgender in the U.S. today, LGBTQ adults see the most acceptance for those who are gay or lesbian. How we defined LGBTQ groups for analysisThroughout this report, references to gay, lesbian and bisexual adults exclude those who are transgender.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
Data in this report comes from Wave 160 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted Jan. 8-19, 2025, among a sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) U.S. adults. A total of 3,959 eligible, LGBTQ adults responded out of 8,951 who were sampled, for a survey-level response rate of 62% (AAPOR RR3).
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
We asked LGBTQ Americans some questions to better understand:How connected they feel to a broader LGBTQ communityHow much they feel they have in common with people who are gay or lesbian, bisexual, transgender or straightHow many of their friends are LGBTQWhat LGBTQ people think of where they liveHow we defined LGBTQ groups for analysisThroughout this report, references to gay, lesbian and bisexual adults exclude those who are transgender.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
We asked LGBTQ adults whether they feel accepted by their family, friends and co-workers, and about their experiences with discrimination based on their LGBTQ identity. How we defined LGBTQ groups for analysisThroughout this report, references to gay, lesbian and bisexual adults exclude those who are transgender. Transgender adults are of any sexual orientation (28% of trans adults we surveyed identify as gay or lesbian, 53% are bisexual, and 8% are straight).
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
The Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report was made possible with support from the Trusts and from the People & Voices Initiative. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/topic/gender-lgbtq.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
To better understand the coming out experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adults, we asked them:How old they were when they first felt they might be gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans, even if they didn’t use those words to describe themselves at the time. How old they were when they first told someone that they were or might be gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Rachel Minkin |Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Luona Lin |Dana Braga
To better understand how LGBTQ adults identify, we asked respondents three separate questions:If they are gay or lesbian, bisexual, straight or something elseIf they are transgenderIf they think of themselves as queerWhen it comes to sexual orientation, more than half of LGBTQ adults (55%) describe themselves as bisexual. Four-in-ten are gay or lesbian, while small shares are straight (1%) or something else (3%). About one-in-ten LGBTQ adults (9%) are transgender.
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1 month ago | 
pewresearch.org | Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Kiana Cox |Shannon Greenwood
May 7, 2025May 25 marks five years since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was found guilty on charges of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. Floyd’s murder, just months after the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, sparked nationwide protests.
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1 month ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Juliana Menasce Horowitz |Kiana Cox
Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s KillingSome called the summer of 2020 a time of racial reckoning in America. But in the years since, Americans have expressed growing skepticism that the events of 2020 produced significant change. In September 2020, 52% of U.S. adults said the increased focus on issues of race and racial inequality would lead to changes that would improve the lives of Black people; 46% said it would not.
