Contents:
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
- NEARLY 300,000 SAME-SEX UPL HAVE MARRIED SCE GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED NATNWI: STUDY
- HOW MANY GAY COUPL HAVE TIED THE KNOT? NOBODY KNOWS
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time? In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US.
Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed. Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).
4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.
THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed.
NEARLY 300,000 SAME-SEX UPL HAVE MARRIED SCE GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED NATNWI: STUDY
The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000.
Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed. 2% of Amerin adults intify as “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg other than straight or heterosexual.
12, 2016More than three years after a Supreme Court cisn gave feral regnn to same-sex marriag performed stat that allowed them, the mographics of same-sex married upl largely rema a fact, no one has a five unt of gay married upl the Uned reason ’s hard to get a fix on the marriag is that tailed marriage rerds are not tracked at the feral level. It don’t rely on sampl as the cens do, but all the tax rerds difference is particularly important when to untg gay and lbian populatns. The problem wh timatg gay and lbian populatns is that they reprent such a small actn of the total populatn; any mistak how people answered their cens forms are likely to ph the number of gay upl and, particular, gay married upl wildly out of fact, this is what happened the 2000 cens and aga 2010.
HOW MANY GAY COUPL HAVE TIED THE KNOT? NOBODY KNOWS
One of the more tertg problems was that many straight upl were beg classified as gay bee of rrectly checked box on a cens form. This rulted, acrdg to some timat, as much as a 25 percent overunt of gay did the Cens Bure try to ntrol for this error? So gay upl who crossed state borrs to marry, but lived stat that did not regnize gay marriage, were not allowed to file jotly on their state tax returns.
Hodg, the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that regnized gay marriage all stat.
So the Treasury data is most likely unruntg same-sex marriag more than a dozen stat that did not regnize such marriag before the Obergefell the bt way to thk about the Treasury numbers is as a floor, lower than the hypothetilly perfect unt of gay marriage but the clost we’ve ever e to one.