New Jersey Civil Unions Begin

TOPICS: US. Gay relationships. Civil unions. Gay marriage. Lesbian and gay rights. PR. Gay and lesbian market. New Jersey. The US State of New Jersey, just across the Hudson from Manhattan, this week joined the growing numbers of jurisdictions giving official recognition to lesbian and gay unions.

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The US State of New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan - and Hillary Clinton's State of New York - this week joined the growing numbers of jurisdictions offering official recognition to lesbian and gay unions.

The first Civil Union applications were lodged last Monday, the first day gay couples could do this, and the first civil partnerships took place this past Thursday, 72 hours after application filing.

This sees New Jersey join Vermont and Connecticut in offering Civil Unions to gay couples. Only the State of Massachusetts in the US currently offers full same sex marriage.

This trend towards official recognition of gay and lesbian relationships seems set to continue - as more places as diverse as New Zealand, South Africa, UK, Spain, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, France and Germany evolve to provide state sanctioned official recognition of lesbian and gay partnerships, whether termed gay marriage or not.

You can learn a lot more from the website of one of Out Now's clients: pogoplum.com and you can read here news reporting of these new New Jersey Civil Unions.

It is a sign of the growth in visibility, understanding and acceptance of lesbian and gay people that these civil unions took place in New Jersey this past week.

This trend seems set to continue as more regions accept and legislate for gay and lesbian civil unions, or civil partnerships or gay marriage.

It is also not just good lawmaking, there are definite favourable PR and gay market benefits that flow from this. How many gays and lesbians around the world would have given New Jersey a second thought were it not for these new laws this week? Acceptance of gay equality and being able to feel comfortable when visiting are two of the strongest motivators for the lucrative lesbian travel and gay tourism markets.

Whatever the laws are, and whatever the tangible gay PR and gay tourism market benefits to a destination might be, you can be sure of one thing the lawmakers can never influence - and that is that gay people, wherever they live, will still keep falling in love with each other.
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