Unlike different - sex couples, it's more equally shared by about 74
percent of gay couples versus 38 percent of straight couples.
NYC & Co., the city's tourism arm, and the City Clerk's office conducted a survey of more than 1,700 same - sex couples, finding that since the Marriage Equality Act went into effect in July 2011, 67
percent of gay couples held wedding receptions at restaurants, homes or catering halls in the five boroughs.
Unlike different - sex couples, it's more equally shared by about 74
percent of gay couples versus 38 percent of straight couples.
Not exact matches
• One third
of lesbian
couples and 20.1
percent of gay male
couples without a high school diploma are in poverty, compared to 18.8
percent of different - sex married
couples.
Of men in same - sex couples, 10.2 percent, who live in small metropolitan areas, are poor, compared with only 3.3 percent of coupled gay men in large metropolitan area
Of men in same - sex
couples, 10.2
percent, who live in small metropolitan areas, are poor, compared with only 3.3
percent of coupled gay men in large metropolitan area
of coupled gay men in large metropolitan areas.
(A study published in 2010 found 50
percent of gay male
couples in the Bay Area had sexual relationships outside their union, with their partner's knowledge and approval.)