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I actually crunched the numbers on Irish gay marriages a bit more (I'm bored, what can I say).
Average age of marriage in Ireland: 33.
% of the population aged 27-36: depending on the source 18-22%. Let's call it 20%.
% of those that identify as "in a relationship" 60% ish.
So, the number of gay Irish people, in the average age demographic, that are in a relationship (ie, ripe marriage material) was 32k ish.
2100 got married, or about 8%.
% of straight couples in the marriage sweet spot that got married? 6.5%.
More gay people proportionately got married that year than straight people.
But yeah...not really a desire from the NTTAWWTs to get married is there...
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When you're dealing with fairly small numbers, 1.5% is not a big difference. That's about 500 people.
Considering it was the first year of legalised SSM (thus a lot of those marriages would be from outside that sweet spot range as two 60 same sex year olds for instance are finally able to legally marry), I am actually surprised it wasn't more than that. Not exactly a surge in marriages.