“Here’s Why Marriage Is Good For Same Sex Couples” - Gay Couples Institute™ - San Francisco, CA

Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage in California, was just overturned. Many people have been asking us whether marriage really helps gay/lesbian relationships last long term.

Marriage does help same sex relationships. Here’s two important pieces of evidence:

An important article in the Journal of Developmental Psychology in 2003 followed up with Vermont-based couples who went through civil unions from 2000-2002. It compared those unionized couples with a) their gay un-unionized friends’ relationships, and b) their heterosexual married friends, to see how long the unionized couples stayed together.

It found that the gay/lesbian couples who unionized stayed together at the SAME RATE as their married heterosexual counterparts, and LONGER THAN their friends who had un-unionized relationships. In short, a union that is recognized by the government helps couples stay together longer.

Read complete report:

http://www.gaycouplesinstitute.org/blog/2010/08/04/heres-why-marriage-is-good-for-same-sex-couples/

“The Positive Aspects of Being Gay or Lesbian”

http://www.gaycouplesinstitute.org/blog/2008/02/15/the-positive-aspects-of-being-gay-or-lesbian/

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