New IMAPP Study: Demand for SSM/Maggie Gallagher

Thanks Jon, always glad to see you post. I'll respond shortly with my own "take" on the data.

Meanwhile the study can be found here.

An Associated Press story about the new report is here:

This is the Executive Summary:

"What proportion of gay and lesbian people choose to marry, when the option is legally available?

This research report offers estimates of based on the best available data. The highest estimate to date of the proportion of gays and lesbians who have married in any jurisdiction where it is available is 16.7% (Massachusetts). More typically, our survey of marriage statistics from various countries that legally recognize same-sex unions suggests that today between 1% and 5% of gays and lesbians have entered into a same-sex marriage. In the Netherlands, which has had same-sex marriage as a legal option for the longest period (over four years), between 2% and 6% of gays and lesbians have entered marriages.

Trend data is extremely limited, but the available data suggest that the number of gay marriages tends to decrease after an initial burst (reflecting pent up demand). Whether same-sex marriage will emerge as common or normative among gays and lesbians, or fade as time and novelty passes, cannot yet be determined."
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