Saturday, June 23, 2012

Australia: Census Counts 34000 Gay, Lesbian ... - Purple Unions

Written by scott on June 21st, 2012

Data from Australia?s 2011 census have been released today and show 33,714 gay couples, 1,338 of whom are married.

The number of same-sex relationships is equivalent to 0.48 per cent of the total number of couples recorded in the survey and has risen from 25,600 in 2006.

For the first time, gay couples had the option of recording themselves as married in the census, though Australia does not legally recognise them as such at the federal level.

Full Story from Pink News

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