Gallup has been asking the public what it thinks about LGBT issues for more than 40 years. Below are the percentages of the public in agreement with the first questions Gallup asked in 1977 and the percentages in agreement with the same questions in 2019...
Gay people should have equal rights in terms of job opportunities
2019: 93%
1977: 56%
Gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal
2019: 83%
1977: 43%
Gays and lesbians should be allowed to adopt children
2019: 75%
1977: 14%
Being gay or lesbian is something a person is born with
2019: 49%
1977: 13%
LGBT issues, Gallup concludes, "have undergone some of the most dramatic shifts in public opinion—including gay marriage, which hardly even registered as a goal for gay rights activists of the 1970s."
Source: Gallup, Gallup First Polled on Gay Issues in '77. What Has Changed?
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