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Same-sex marriage has reduced suicide by almost half
Same-sex marriage in Sweden and Denmark has reduced the number of lesbians and gay men dying by suicide by almost half, PinkNews reports.
Denmark was the first country in the world to allow civil unions for same-sex couples in 1989, and Sweden in the same in 1995. Same-sex marriage was legalised in Sweden in 2009, and in Denmark in 2012.
Comparing two 13-year periods, 1989 to 2002 and 2003 to 2016, they looked at deaths by suicide of people in same-sex couples during the time both countries legalised civil partnerships and the time they both legalised same-sex marriage.
Suicides among those in same-sex partnerships fell by 46 percent between the two periods.
