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Gallup poll. Americans’ trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” is almost unchanged from last year at 34%, just two points higher than the lowest Gallup ever recorded in 2016 during the presidential campaign.Only 7% of American adults have a great deal of trust and confidence in newspapers, TV and radio news, while 27% have a fair amount.

The Cure’s Robert Smith and Simon Gallup picked up the Icon Award at tonight’s (May 19) Ivor Novello awards in London.The frontman and the bassist have been part of the band’s lineup since 1978 and 1979 respectively, helping to turn the band into one of the UK’s most beloved and iconic indie acts.During the ceremony at Grosvenor House tonight, Smith and Gallup were presented the Icon Award by their long-time agent, Martin Hopewell from Primary Talent. “The best part of half a century ago when I was a young whippersnapper booking agent, I was persuaded to get down to a small hotel in Crawley, of all places, to see a new and even younger band called The Cure, who were playing halfway up the bill of some sort of talent night,” Hopewell reminisced as he introduced the musicians.“I wish I could say it was some kind of blinding light, road to Damascus experience but nevertheless… when we met up on the street outside afterwards, I agreed to start helping them get some gigs and that makes one of very few decisions I’ve made in my life that I don’t want to go back in time and give myself a clip around the ear for making.”Noting that The Cure had gone from playing “the smallest clubs and colleges to the biggest arenas and festivals”, he celebrated their “famously epic live shows and timeless songs that have inspired countless other artists and embedded themselves into the lives of millions of people”.Hopewell continued to highlight the friendship between Smith and Gallup, while also praising The Cure as a whole for their “unique” artistry.

More Americans than ever are identifying as LGBT, with a significant 7.1% of the population now saying that they are part of this community.

Perhaps the least surprising story of the day is from Gallup, which released its latest polling on Americans’ trust in media, finding that just 36% have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of faith in what they see and hear in the news.

Members of MetroDC PFLAG march in the 2019 Capital Pride Parade in Washington DC. Photo: MetroDC PFLAG.

surveyed more than 1,000 Americans and found that overall support for gay couples marrying is at a record high, with 70% of adults in favor.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterRoughly 5.6% of Americans identify as members of the LGBT community, according to a February poll from Gallup, but a staggering 46% of them are not out of the closet at work.That statistic is attributed to a widely referenced 2018 study from the Human Rights Campaign, and surely casts confusion on an industry such as Hollywood — where expectations around acceptance and representation have shifted dramatically in recent years, to say nothing of the authentic

a just-published report from Gallup, 5.6 percent of Americans identify as LGBT, or non-heterosexual, up from 4.5 percent in 2017. The report covers all of 2020.

Gallup Poll.Of adults who identify as LGBTQ, a majority, or close to 3.1% of all Americans overall, identify as bisexual. A little less than one-quarter of LGBTQ adults identify as gay, with about 11.7% identifying as lesbians, and about 11.3% identifying as transgender.

A recent Gallup poll found 77% of registered voters said the outcome of the November election between President Trump and Joe Biden matters more to them than prior U.S. elections.  That represents an uptick of 6 percentage points from 2016 when Trump faced of against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump, 74, wants to know why “nobody” likes him, while the same can’t be said about the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci. After the U.S. president’s approval rating dropped to a new low of 38 percent (according to The Atlantic, which cited a June 2020 poll from Gallup), Trump voiced his complaints at a press conference about the COVID-19 pandemic on July 28.