Divorce rates between gay men

Since achieving marriage equality, Australian same-sex couples can join and divorce as they wish.

Same-sex marriage is recognised in 35 countries around the world.

The right to marry and divorce someone regardless of sex or gender was a lengthy time coming in Australia. A couple in Perth is the first gay pair couple to proceed through a divorce.

What is the Current Rate of Gay Divorce in Australia?

As of the most recent available data, the rate of gay divorce in Australia was reported as follows:

• In the year 2021, there were a total of 473 same-sex divorces recorded in Australia. This number comprised 306 female couples and 167 male couples​​.
• The same data put revealed 2,842 same-sex marriages in 2021, with female couples more likely to marry than male couples. The statistics indicated that male and female homosexual marriages break down at roughly the same rates​​.
• This figure of 473 lgbtq+ divorces came after gay marriage was legalised in Australia in December 2017. It’s important to notice that same-sex couples contain only been able to marry in Australia since the start of 2018 legally​​

  10 Interesting Facts About Same Sex Marriage and Divorce

  Eight years after same-sex marriage was written into law, we’re looking at these major life events by the numbers. 

  1. Queer marriages are on the rise.

  This is the eighth year since same-sex marriages have been possible; around one in 35 marriages are now among lgbtq+ couples. Just bashful of 7,000 homosexual couples tied the knot in 2018, according to the Office of National Statistics. Covid stalled the wedding industry, with fewer couples saying ‘I do’ in 2020 than in previous years. But pandemic aside, the overall trend is up. 

  2. Civil partnerships have fallen out of favour.

  The introduction of civil partnerships in December 2005 saw gigantic numbers of lgbtq+ couples rushing to become civil partners, stabilising at around 6,000 civil partnerships a year in the late 2000s. Today, there are just over 1,000 civil partnerships a year, as marriage is now the preferred union for same-sex couples.

  3. Men and older couples are more likely to create a civil partnership.

  The couples most likely to choose to form a civil partnership are male or over 50. Nearly two-thirds of all civil partnerships formed in 2018 were bet

  Gay divorce less likely than straight divorce?

  Recent research shows that gay marriages are less likely to end in divorce than straight ones.

  Gay couples have been able to go in into Civil Partnerships for some years now, although technically this is not defined as marriage, even through the legal differences between them are minuscule. The government has indicated that it is likely to amend the statute so that queer people will be able to join in a civil ceremony (and may even allow straight couples to have Civil Partnerships).

  The Office for National Statistics has announced that dissolutions of civil partnerships happen at a lower rate than straight divorces. (Civil Partnerships end in Dissolution, rather than divorce, but again, there is virtually no difference between the two things). So what conclusions can we sketch from this?

  Well, we could perhaps conclude that maybe same-sex attracted couples are beat at making relationships work than linear people. Do a couple of male lover men, for example, have more in common than a straight husband and wife?

  Perhaps, but I doubt that is the reason behind the apparent victory of Civil Partnerships. They have only been possible for a few years and it

  Cansu fought hard for the right to marry her wife. The response to their divorce was harsh

  Cansu Col fought hard for marriage equality.
  
  

  She attended protests and threw energy behind "actively supporting" the campaign, right up until same-sex marriage became legal in December 2017.
  
  

  In 2019 she married another woman but in 2021 they divorced.
  
  

  She describes herself as 'the' gay Turkish migrant in Sydney people seek advice from.
  
  

  But she said when she desperately needed support and advice, it was hard to find and from some corners of the Turkish community she received the opposite.
  
  

  "I got bullied," she told the Feed.
  
  

  "They were negative when I got married and then they were more negative when I got divorced.
  
  

  "Being Turkish, coming from a Muslim society, it's not really acceptable to receive married with a woman."
  
  

  After her divorce, people questioned her culture and asked her if she would marry a man.
  
  

  "They were saying, 'you got what you wanted, so what do you want?'"
  
  

  They challenged her on why she fought for marriage equality in the first place.
  

  Same-sex marriage became legal in A