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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Roughly one in ten. That’s a HUGE portion of the population unmarried and lonely. The social effects of which are HUGE.
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First of all, it is ridiculous to declare that everyone who is not legally married is "lonely."
Second, gay and lesbian couples in most of the nation could not marry until 2015. What sort of massive, radical shift did you expect to see in marriage statistics in a mere nine years?
Third, we lost hundreds of thousands of American gay men to AIDS. They would have been among the oldest living cohorts of LGBT+ folks today. We will never know if, had they lived, they would have eventually settled into marriages (or civil unions, etc.) as they aged. The LGBT+ population skews young because of those deaths, and young people (gay and straight) are delaying marriage longer and longer.