Gays and Lbians Have Different Reasons to Get Married | Time

Contents:

• GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS
• THE REASONS WHY GAY PEOPLE WANT TO GET MARRIED
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY DO GAY PEOPLE WANT TO GET MARRIED A CHURCH WHEREAS THEY HAVE CIVIL UNN?
• NOT ALL GAYS AND LBIANS WANT TO MARRY, REARCH SHOWS

GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS

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.

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.

THE REASONS WHY GAY PEOPLE WANT TO GET MARRIED

And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed.

Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do. In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years.

Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted. Same-sex marriage is now legal across the Uned Stat, but rearch on the reasons gays and lbians get married is sparse.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

) The 1, 381 upl the study—672 lbian and 709 gay upl—were enterg their first unns and were between the ag of 20 and 64.

Most gay upl entered their unn whout kids, and that number remaed close to zero after marriage; the thors nclud that “the ma functn of registered partnership for gays is rource poolg, ” they wre the paper.

” In other words, gay upl were more likely to get married to be and rourc; lbians tend to e marriage as a steppg stool towards creatg a fay, further emphasized by a spike lbians registerg for marriage 2002, the year when jot adoptn was ma legal. Havg kids is pecially expensive for gay mean, who need to fd an egg and a gtatnal rrier—a problem lbian upl don’t have.

WHY DO GAY PEOPLE WANT TO GET MARRIED A CHURCH WHEREAS THEY HAVE CIVIL UNN?

What’s astonishg about the new rearch is that showed that lbian upl are often not as assortatively matched as heterosexual upl, or even gay men. 'Cred: RtersMost important for is the newly gaed abily for gay Amerins to sponsor their foreign partners for a green rd, givg them the optn to live permanently the celebratg our nuptials, my partner and I will ex the US through ctoms and immigratn as a legally regnised, married uple.

NOT ALL GAYS AND LBIANS WANT TO MARRY, REARCH SHOWS

''But that qutn reli on the ia that the fight for gay marriage is only about the right to be clud that admtedly flawed stutn, to be able to wear whe drs or have whatever is the gay versn of a hens' or bucks' night. Although for many gay people those are tradns they would like to participate , for others the fight for gay marriage is about somethg my partner and I, 's not about wantg to be part of an stutn that is, many ways, very problematic.