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The surprising age gaps between 9 celebrity LGBTQ couples
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- For some LGBTQ celebrity couples, age is just a number.
- Sarah Paulson is nearly 32 years younger than her partner, Holland Taylor.
- Olympic diver Tom Daley and his husband, Dustin Lance Black, have a 20-year age gap.
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Sarah Paulson is almost 32 years younger than her partner, Holland Taylor.
Paulson, who is 46 years old, said she thought Taylor, now 78, was "probably the most exquisitely beautiful woman" when they met in 2005, according to a New York Times interview in 2016.
"There's a poignancy to being with someone older," Paulson also told the publication. "I ponder there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the petite things
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Dear Kai,
We’re a gay male couple, aged 23 and 45 years aged respectively—call us Chicken (the younger guy) and Hawk (the older guy). We met on Grindr a couple years ago.
Hawk: I make a very solid salary as a marketing director, and I’m supporting Chicken financially as he goes through university. We also live together in my condo. I deeply, truly love Chicken, and I want nothing but the best for him—I know our age difference is fairly expansive , but I feel that we are soulmates. I would never want to take advantage of him, and I’ve let Chicken know that he should never feel that he “owes” me anything just because of our financial situation. I have never been happier in my life, but some of my friends are reacting quite badly to our relationship—they say our age difference makes them uncomfortable and that I’m cradle-robbing, so to spe Dear Mona, What is the average age difference among couples? My partner and I are 28 years apart, so I’m sure we’re an outlier, but by how much? And is it different between heterosexual and homosexual couples (we fall into the latter)? Thanks, Seth, 32, Dallas Dear Seth, This data comes from the 2014 Current Population Survey (CPS) and is based on information provided by 31,075 male-female couples. Those surveyed couples are supposed to verb the estimated 70 million heterosexual couples who stay together in the U.S. It doesn’t matter whether they’re married or unmarried, parents or childless — all couples are counted in the CPS, unless they’re gay. So, I’m sorry, Seth, but these numbers just don’t properly verb you. I ran into a similar problem when I wrote about the average
Recent (2019) Marriages to Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples: Marital History and Age at Marriage
Six years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that marriages to same-sex couples were legal in all states, prompting the US Census Bureau to revise their household rosters to directly count same-sex and different-sex married and cohabiting couples. Using data from the ACS 1-year PUMS files from 2019 (the first time the revised roster was implemented), we display the most recent American Community Survey (ACS) estimates of individuals entering into a same-sex marriage. We compare same-sex newlyweds to different-sex newlyweds based on their marital history, average age at most recent marriage, and couple’s age gap (including 95% confidence intervals). First marriage refers to a first marriage for both members of the couple and remarriage refers to a remarriage for at least one member of the couple. Analyses are limited to householders and spouses of householders. Note, while the terms “sex” and “gender” are not interchangeable,
The average age difference (for a heterosexual couple) is 2.3 years, with the man older than the woman. In 64 percent of heterosexual couples, the man is older. In 23 percent, the noun is older, and in the remaining 13 percent, the partners are less than 12 months apart in age.