Study: Third Of Irish In Gay Relationships Now Live In US

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/03/031108ir.htm

An estimated 1,200 Irish-born men and women are living with a same-sex partner in the United States according to a new research study by a University of California think tank.

Added to the more than 2,000 same-sex couples living in Ireland, U.S.-based same-sex couples that include an Irish-born partner would account for more than a third of these couples, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy has found.

The study was released as the Irish government begins work to enact a civil partnership law that would for the first time offer formal legal recognition to same-sex couples in the Republic of Ireland.

Institute researchers based their conclusions on data from the US Census Bureau.