In the wake of same sex marriage becoming legal in the UK on the 29/03/2014 & Oldham rhetoric about staging the first ceremony in Greater Manchester here’s a reminder that in 2012 Oldham had the lowest levels of Civil Partnerships in Greater Manchester: 4 Female & just 1 male ceremony for every 100,000 residents which is Less than 50% of the next lowest levels. Unsurprisingly the City of Manchester had the highest levels with 78 male & 61 female ceremonies per 100,000. Official statistics for Oldham shows that 0.26% of the population is openly LGB which is almost 6 times less than The Office For National Statistics UK estimates and 38 times less than The Kinsey Report UK estimates.
