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Documenting long term LGBT committed relationships

The Commitment Project

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

A new project has been set up to document long term gay and lesbian committed relationships in Australia.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the median length of an Australian marriage is 8.7 years.

Organisers of the Commitment Project are looking for couples that have outlasted this 8.7 years together and want to share their story.

Gay, lesbian and transgendered relationships surely deserve the same legal rights and public respect as heterosexual ones, but this project is about more than just "gay marriage". Organisers hope that these simple images of loving couples will help reduce homophobia, inspire young people to keep their romantic dreams and for parents to know that their gay, lesbian and transgendered children have just as much chance of having a long term and happy family life as anyone else.

The Commitment Project aims to show the wider community that for all the differences LGBT people fundamentally want the same thing, to be allowed to love who we love.

Find out more on the website, and let them know if you are gay, lesbian, queer (or however you wish to identify yourself) in a relationship 8.8 years or more (which is about 8 years and 10 months) and would like to be involved in the project:

www.thecommitmentproject.net