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WA: New Study Says Marriage Equality Would Add $88 Million to State Economy

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Marriage Equality and Washington's EconomyThe Williams Institute released a report which estimates the economic impact of marriage for gays and lesbians in Washington State.

According to a statement released by the Williams Institute about the report, “The report finds that the total spending on wedding arrangements and tourism by resident same-sex couples and their guests will add an $88-million boost to the Washington economy over the first three years. This spending is likely to generate $8 million in tax revenue for state and local governments.”

“Our study estimates that resident same-sex couples will spend $39 million on weddings in Washington in the first year alone,” said co-author Angeliki Kastanis, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute. Added Kastanis, “That translates to approximately $3.4 million in tax revenue, given Washington sales tax rates.”

Full Story from The Seattle PI

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New Study: Marriage Equality Improves Health

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Gay Marriage and HealthA new study has found that gay men who live in states that don’t treat them like second-class citizens are–imagine this!–happier and healthier!

After studying gay men in Massachusetts, the American Journal of Public Health reports that visits to health clinics dropped significantly–regardless of relationship status–since marriage equality became law.

Researchers studied 1,211 gay men at a particular MA clinic one year before marriage equality and one year after. Following the opening of marriage rights to same-sex couples, researchers say gay men experienced a 13 percent drop in clinic visits, as well as a decrease in blood pressure, depression and stress-related illnesses.

Full Story from Instinct

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IA: Marriage Equality Netted State $13 Million

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Iowa Marriage Equality StudyA new report from the Williams Institute shows that just one year of marriage equality in Iowa had great financial benefit for the state.

In the 12 months after the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage in April 2009, wedding arrangements and tourism by same-sex couples and their guests generated between $12 million and $13 million in spending, resulting in up to $930,000 in new state and local tax revenues.

About 59 percent of the same-sex couples who married in that first year were from outside Iowa, but mostly from neighboring states in the Midwest.

Full Story from Think Progress

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New Study: Gay Divorce Rate Half That of Straights

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Williams Institute StudyThe Williams Institute, a prestigious gay-legal think tank located at the University of California Los Angeles, has just released some fascinating statistics. In a comprehensive study, researchers Lee Badgett and Jody Herman surveyed the number of same-sex couples that married or state-registered in civil unions or domestic partnerships. They also looked at the gender and age of those who did so. And most interestingly to me, they also looked at the number of couples that are formally ending their relationships, in comparison to the divorce rate for straight couples. The study can be found on Williams Institute website.

Here is a summary of what these researchers concluded:

1. Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples have either married or registered civil unions or domestic partnerships, which constitutes about one-fifth of same-sex couples in the U.S. (or rather, a fifth of those who acknowledged themselves as such in recent United States Census reports).

2. About 1% of the total number of currently-married or registered same-sex couples get divorced each year, in comparison to about 2% of the total number of married straight couples. Note that the percentage of couples that get divorced eventually is close to 50%, but only 1% or 2% of them get divorced in any particular year.

Full Story from the Huffington Post

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Study Shows US Gay/Lesbian Couples Prefer Marriage to Civil Unions

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Study of US Gay and Lesbian CouplesA US study author has said the country’s gay couples take advantage of new equal marriage rights more quickly than other legally recognised unions when they are introduced.

The study, by The Williams Institute, was designed to create a country-wide representation of the demand for legal recognition among same-sex couples. It compared data for states with full marriage equality and states with civil unions.

In the US, over 140,000 same-sex couples have had their relationship recognised by state law and nearly 50,000 have married. The data showed that same-sex couples are marrying at higher rates than they are entering civil unions or other legally recognised partnerships, particularly when the options are first introduced by a state.

Full Story from Pink News

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Problems With Study Used to Defend DOMA

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Defense of Marriage ActYesterday, I mentioned how Speaker of the House John Boehner’s hired team of lawyers was using bad research to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.

I zeroed in on a poor study, No Difference?: An Analysis of Same-Sex Parenting. which was a part of the team’s documentation. This study, written by George Dent, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, contained many errors, including citing the work of discredited researchers such as Paul Cameron and George Rekers.

I also made note that the Dent’s study also cited work from the American College of Pediatricians, a group designed to pass along anti-gay junk science as fact.

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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New Study: Marriage Equality Improves State Budgets

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Recent studies are increasingly supportive of the idea that marriage equality will have not only moral and psychological impacts on the people involved, but could also bring economic prosperity to their states in the long term.

Findings by the UCLA’s Williams Institute at the School of Law this month predict that marriage equality in Rhode Island would positively affect the state budget by $1.2 million over the first three years following its legalization. The estimates are based on various factors such as increased revenue from state marriage license fees, income, and sales taxes.

Resident same-sex couples in Rhode Island would spend nearly $4 million on wedding expenses, and out-of-state visitors would generate an additional $1.35 million in spending and accommodations. Rhode Island is currently one of only two New England states that do not have marriage equality, but a bill is pending in the House and its judiciary committee held a high-profile hearing just last week.

Full Story from Opposing Views

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Being Gay in Israel

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Being Gay in IsraelThe first extensive profile of Israel’s gay and lesbian community concludes that Lesbians do not tell anyone about their sexual orientation, on average, for two and a half years after they begin doubting whether they are heterosexual, while gay men often remain in the closet longer – about three and a half years.

The comprehensive study was conducted by four researchers at Hoshen, an educational center for the gay community in Israel: Aylon Slater, Uri Ike, Inbal Katsaf and Shai Hertz.

Hoshen is an independent organization that aims to integrate members of the gay community into mainstream society through educational programs, with an emphasis on tolerance, pluralism and openness. Much of their work is done through lessons and lectures given by representatives of the group, under the auspices of the Education Ministry, with an emphasis on sharing personal stories and experiences.

Full Story from Haaretz.com

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DADT Study: Little Impact From Repeal

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Don't Ask Don't TellDefense Secretary Robert Gates told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday that existing policies such as housing and spousal benefits for military service members “can and should be applied equally to homosexuals as well as heterosexuals.”

Gates says he does not expect the Pentagon would have to rethink those policies to accommodate gays if they are allowed to serve openly in the military.

He said a majority of concerns associated with repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” provision against gays serving openly could be addressed through increased training and education.

Full Story from the Washington Post

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Senator Graham Says DADT Will Not Be Repealed, Calls for More Study

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Senator Lindsey GrahamSenator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy would not be repealed during the remaining weeks Congress is in session this calendar year.

The South Carolina Republican, a proponent of the law banning openly gay service in the armed forces, said definitively that there was no support for repeal on the Republican side of the aisle. He called for an additional study to determine whether the military itself favored overturning the 17-year-old legislation.

“This is a political promise made by Senator Obama when he was running for president,” said Graham, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “There is no groundswell of opposition to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell coming from our military. This is all politics.”

Full Story from the Huffington Post

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