Captain Obvious Says Marriage Equality = $$$
JustOut.com
by Amanda Schurr
May 18th, 2009

We kid, we kid — Make that the Boston Globe. A story published Sunday at Boston. com reports $111 million has been pumped into Massachusetts’ economy as a result of over 12,000 same-sex marriages performed statewide since 2004. According to the study quoted, courtesy the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law,

“a typical same-sex couple spent about $7,400 on their wedding, with one in ten couples spending over $20,000.

A second study by the same group found that young, highly educated people in same-sex relationships were 2.5 times more likely to move to Massachusetts after 2004 than before gay marriage became legal.

M.V. Lee Badgett, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts and a study co-author, says allowing gay couples to marry has helped businesses in tough economic times.”

Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of Massachusetts recording its first same-sex marriage licenses.