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06.05.2009 8:00am EDT
New England might attract a new, young, “creative class” – thanks to marriage equality in every state but Rhode Island.
“It will be a selling point when it comes to trying to lure people with same-sex partners who are being wooed for a job,” M.V. Lee Badgett, a University of Massachusetts economist who studies gay and lesbian issues, told Reuters.
Gay and lesbian couples who are part of the “creative class” – highly educated professionals, entrepreneurs and artists – were 2.5 times more likely to move to Massachusetts in the three years following the approval of same-sex marriage, according to a study released in May by the Williams Institute of the University of California.
The relocating couples were more likely to be younger and female than before same-sex marriage was approved.
Even straight members of the “creative class” regard states with marriage equality as more appealing places to live.
“It broadly suggests you have an environment in which people who are seen as different are accepted,” said Gary Gates, the UCLA demographer and the lead author of the study.
See the full Reuters story here.
Hope it is affordable. would like to atleast see New England if not eventually move there. sounds like a beautiful wonderful place to live.
RI will be the last New England state to get equality, but get it they likely by 2012. Ardent anti-marriage equality Gov Carcieri will be out of his job due to RI term limits in 2011 and all the current Dem frontrunners for Carcieri’s job are pro marriage equality. One of them could be David Cicilline, the gay mayor of Providence, RI.
For now, the brand new marriage equality in Maine is under attack and needs to be safeguarded.
David Cicilline should run for Govonor of the state of Rhode Island in 2012 – then we will have marriage equality in Rhode island!!!!!
Republicans are obsticles that refuse to move wit the times and just step aside for once in their lives [THE SKY WILL NOT FALL] – time to get the bulldozer out and crush those bastard Republicans!!!!!