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Want? Maybe 50%. Who knows. Could be more or less. But doesn’t mean we’ll be able to find someone we want to marry
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Thinking it's minority. When I first came out in 98/99, most friends I knew didn't want or expect it. A good relationship sure.
I think 50% overall, and 80% of married couples want polyamory or some variation of that. Really though, most just want a license to sleep with other people and have FWBs over actual meaningful connections which would constitute true polyamory. I honestly don’t have many friends who are in poly relationships. Most are either in monogamous (emotionally) relationships, but have open policies regarding extramarital activities, or are single.
When you start a comment with "I THINK," you are stating an opinion, not a fact. I don't know how long you've been practicing law but I wouldn't try that in court.
The percentage of LGBTQ couples who WANT to marry a same-sex partner is unimportant; that ANYONE is denied that right IS important. The legal maxim "Justice delayed is justice denied" was frequently quoted by many of us who fought for the right to marry.
Civil marriage is a legal right for all Americans (with certain agreed-upon legal exceptions). What marriage equality did was remove the legal prohibition on same sex marriage.
The Williams Institute (williamsinstitue.law.ucla.edu) published a number of reports about marriage equality among the LGBTQ people.
"Perspectives on Marriage Equality in 2024" and I refer you to their Publications page on their website: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/marriage-equality-in-2024/
Another: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/legally-married-lgb-people-us/
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Great question - don’t know honestly but it doesn’t seem to be a majority.
The issue with marriage is its connotation to religion. Marriage as bonding (and tax benefit), yes, would think gays want. Marriage in the current symbolic status, no.
You are asking the wrong question here. At one point, Public approval of interracial marriage rose from 5% in the 1950s to 94% in 2021 and anti-miscegenation laws were held unconstitutional in 1967 (Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1). I refer you to Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion in that case "the freedom to marry, or not to marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."
Zombie laws prohibiting same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, sodomy (same-sex or opposite sex) often remain until there is a formal effort to remove the unconstitutional language (e.g. Alabama in a 2000 referendum).
These zombie laws often have a deleterious effect on people's lives. The Texas legislature has thus-far refused to remove the prohibition against "Homosexual conduct" (i.e. sodomy) in the Criminal Code despite the Supreme Court declaring it unconstitutional (Lawrence v. Texas, 539 S. Ct. 2472, 2003). Every time an attempt to remove that law, the Southern Baptists in the Texas Leg refuse to enact the removal because they don't want their actions to demonstrate any approval of homosexuals."
Zombie laws are often not taken off the books. Don't think so? check if your home title still contains a prohibition against selling your home to a Jew (as did our home in Houston) despite being unenforceable.
The point here is that the "percentage of gay men ... who want marriage" is immaterial. Rights are not subject to majority rule.