ICYMI: New Data Shows that Majority of Americans Support Nondiscrimination Laws for LGBTQ+ Individuals

New PRRI research shows over three-quarters of Americans steadfastly support policies that protect LGBTQ+ Americans from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

New Gallup poll finds more people than ever before identify as LGBTQ+.

WASHINGTON - March 19, 2024 - New findings released last week from Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) polling and focus groups show that strong majorities of Americans - including, critically, most people of faith - support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ individuals (76%), are opposed to religiously based service refusals (60%), and support marriage equality (67%). While there was a slight decline of overall support for the LGBTQ+ community among certain subsets of the population, the American people are overwhelmingly rejecting the extremist anti-equality agenda peddled by MAGA politicians and personalities.

Also last week, a new poll from Gallup found that 28.5% of women aged 18-26 identified themselves as LGBTQ+, with 20.7% saying that they are bisexual and 5.4% identifying as lesbians. Members of Gen-Z were also approximately twice as likely as Millennials to identify as LGBTQ+.

Also last week, a new poll from Gallup found that 28.5% of women aged 18-26 identified themselves as LGBTQ+, with 20.7% saying that they are bisexual and 5.4% identifying as lesbians. Members of Gen-Z were also approximately twice as likely as Millennials to identify as LGBTQ+.

Human Rights Campaign Director of Communications, Programs, Laurel Powell released the following statement:

"Right-wing extremists are hellbent on loudly vocalizing their disdain for equality and working to advance an agenda that hurts everyone who doesn't look and live like them. But these new surveys show that even as our opponents push more of their own people away from the side of justice, most Americans know the difference between right and wrong - and they're on our side. Not only are these extremists not able to turn people against us, they also can't stop people from living openly and proudly as themselves. Our only message to those extremists is: we aren't going anywhere."

The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ+ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.