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In the above study, lesbians' divorce risks were 10% higher than for gay men (Table 4). A study of marriage dissolution rates in Sweden spanning the years 1995–2012 found that 30% of both male same-sex marriages and heterosexual marriages ended in divorce, whereas the separation rate for female same-sex marriages was 40% (their Figure 7a). [19]
The article states "Between 2004 and 2009, the average annual divorce rate for all homosexual marriages was almost 80% (the total rate of divorce over those five years was 77%) Also between 2004 and 2009, lesbian divorce rates were nearly double of those of gay men." However, the cited source does not have the numbers 80% or 77%.
In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in Schalk and Kopf v Austria, a case involving an Austrian same-sex couple who were denied the right to marry. [72] The court found, by a vote of 4 to 3, that their human rights had not been violated. [ 73 ]
Most couples lived in Jefferson, Mobile and Madison counties, but the counties with the highest percentage of same-sex couples were Perry (0.72% of all county households) and Hale (0.64%). Same-sex partners in Alabama were on average younger than opposite-sex partners, and more likely to be employed.
A 2024 Gallup poll found that 69% of Americans (83% of Democrats, 74% of independents, and 46% of Republicans) supported same-sex marriage, while 29% opposed it. [20]A 2023 poll by the New York Times and Siena College Research Institute found that 70% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 22% opposed it.
In this study the researchers had the same two women rate the attractiveness of IMDB's list of top 20 actors and actresses as well as Forbes's list of 100 most powerful celebs.
In the next session, debate on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Iowa attracted national news coverage after Zach Wahls, a college student and son of a lesbian couple, addressed the House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing on January 31, 2011. [26] A video of his testimony posted on YouTube went viral. [27]
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