Approval of LGBTQ+ issues reached a plateau and continued a downward slide, according to a new Gallup poll. 

Most Americans, 65%, still support same-sex marriages, but that figure is down 6 percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Of those surveyed, 62% view gay and lesbian relations as morally acceptable, which is the lowest point since 2016. 

The portion of Americans who consider changing one's gender to be morally acceptable has also declined 8 percentage points over the past 5 years. It now sits at 38%. 

Broken down by political party, Republicans showed the largest shift in attitudes towards these issues. In 2021 and 2022, 55% of Republicans said they favored legal same-sex marriage. The figure was 37% in the latest poll. The percentage of Democrats who support legal same-sex marriage, 87%, hasn't changed in that time. 

In 2022, 56% of Republicans viewed same-sex relations as morally acceptable, but in the latest poll the number has dropped to 35%. Only 5% of Republicans say that changing one's gender is morally acceptable, whereas 22% said it's morally acceptable in 2021. 

Results are based on telephone interviews conducted May 1-17, 2026, with a random sample of 1,001 adults, ages 18+, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on this sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.