Gay married couples are just as boring as hetero ones, study finds. But we’ve still got an edge!
survey from the US Census Bureau looks at the similarities and differences between same-sex and opposite-sex married couples.
Massachusetts was the first state to recognize same-sex unions in 2003. Several states followed. However, it was the SCOTUS ruling in 2015 that made same-sex marriage legal across the US.There are now around 1.5 million people in same-sex marriages within the US.
Just over 40% of these married in the four years after the ruling, compared with 14% of those in opposite-sex marriages.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.This new analysis of data.
says people in same-sex marriages tend to be, on average, slightly younger.“About 41 percent of men and 51 percent of women in same-sex marriages were younger than 45 years old, compared to about 32 percent of men and 36 percent of women in opposite-sex marriages.”Regarding ethnicity, the number of white-alone and black-alone couples was similar between gay and straight couples.
