By 2015, 60 percent of those surveyed were in support, just months before the Obergefell v. Those numbers climbed very slowly over the years, only reaching a majority in 2011, 15 years later.
When Gallup began polling on the subject in 1996, only 27 percent of respondents supported legalizing same-sex marriage. Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted in May, found that 71 percent of Americans support legal same-sex marriage, an all-time high.
