Gay marriages up 33% in year since Supreme Court ruling

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million U.S. adults are in same-sex marriages, a 33% increase in the year since the Supreme Court's landmark ruling last June.

The latest estimates from Gallup released Wednesday show there are about 981,000 adults who are in gay or lesbian marriages, up from 734,000 a year ago. That translates into nearly a half million such marriages — an increase of 123,000 since June 2015.

Nearly one in 10 LGBT adults is married to a member of the same sex, up from 8% last year. That includes 10.5% of gay men and 8.8% of lesbians.

And nearly half of all LGBT couples who live together are married today, up from 38% a year ago. The increase has been slightly greater in states that did not have same-sex marriage until the Supreme Court ruled.

Much of the increase took place in the first few months after the high court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, Gallup reported. Since then, the growth in same-sex marriages has leveled off.

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