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Washington’s Muteness on Prop 8 a Sign of Cynicism, Not Progress
Peter King, an idiosyncratic and bellicose Republican Congressmen from Long Island, has been one of the few politicians in either party willing to speak on the record about gay marriage in the wake of...
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CNN Poll is First To Show Majority Support for Gay Marriage
A landmark of sorts was achieved today as CNN just came out with a poll showing a 52 percent majority of Americans agreed with the statement that “gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right...
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Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace
In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by...
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Automated Poll Produces Starkly Different Results on Gay Marriage Question
Not so fast, ladies and ladies (and gentlemen and gentlemen). On the heels of a CNN poll earlier this week which was the first ever to show majority support for gay marriage, Public Policy Polling has...
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Public Opinion on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
The Pentagon on Tuesday released its long-awaited report on “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that allows gay men and women to serve in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation...
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Poll Finds Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage in California
The same week the Obama administration filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a new Field Poll was released showing that support for same-sex...
View ArticleThe Wild, Conservative West
In 2010, Arizona enacted an immigration law so stringent that the U.S. Supreme Court was forced to intervene. Four years later, the governor had to veto a nearly successful effort to allow businesses...
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Like Bush, Many Republicans Are Moderate on Immigration
The Republican Party has grown more conservative over the past couple of decades. But news commentators sometimes wrongly imply that GOP voters take an extremist position on every issue. As I described...
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Catholics Are More Progressive Than The Vatican, And Almost Everyone Else
Roman Catholic bishops released a draft document this week calling for the church to welcome gays, unmarried couples and people who have divorced. The document is proving to be highly controversial...
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Gay Marriage Is Now Legal In 31 States And For Almost 200 Million Americans
On Friday, Arizona and Alaska became the latest states to allow same-sex marriages, bringing the total number of states with gay marriage up to 31 and the collective population of these states to...
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African-Americans Are An Outlier On Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law
Opinions on Indiana’s new religious freedom law — which critics say would allow businesses to deny services to gays and lesbians — tend to divide demographic groups along the same lines as same-sex...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage Wins Easily In Ireland
Ireland voted “yes” on gay marriage on Friday, approving a constitutional amendment that made it the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. The amendment was approved 62 percent...
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Same-Sex Marriage: From 0 To 100 Percent, In One Chart
It’s been a decades-spanning process, but this morning the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to get married in every state, including those states that had...
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Anti-Gay Feeling Is High In Many African Countries Amid Obama Visit
President Obama arrives Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, to start a trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, his fourth visit to sub-Saharan Africa during his time in office. His last visit, in 2013, came a year after the...
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What Americans Think About D.C. Statehood, Anti-Asian Discrimination And...
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Once again, we’re switching up the format a little, so please let us know your thoughts on it (or any other form you’d like to see this feature...
View ArticleHow Same-Sex Marriage Broke Through Partisan Politics
During the span of 25 years, same-sex marriage went from being an unimaginable idea to settled law. During a shorter period — just about a decade — it went from being one of the most high-pitched...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like For Some Gay Men To Come Out As Republican
Gay people in America overwhelmingly vote for Democrats and have done so for decades. But they aren’t a monolithic group. In our second episode of “Political Outliers,” meet two gay Republicans — one...
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Americans’ Support For LGBTQ Rights Often Stops With Transgender Rights
LGBTQ Americans’ Support For LGBTQ Rights Often Stops With Transgender Rights By Natalie Jackson Jul. 12, 2022, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES In his concurring opinion...
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Republicans Lawmakers Are Trying To Ban Drag. First They Have To Define It.
State Legislatures Republicans Lawmakers Are Trying To Ban Drag. First They Have To Define It. By Kaleigh Rogers Mar. 14, 2023, at 6:00 AM Brandon Bell / Getty Images A drag queen battle has emerged...
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Over 100 Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws Passed In The Last Five Years — Half Of Them This Year
State Legislatures Over 100 Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws Passed In The Last Five Years — Half Of Them This Year By Kaleigh Rogers and Mary Radcliffe and Kaleigh Rogers and Mary Radcliffe Graphics by Humera Lodhi...
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