N.Y. Marriage Windfall: $155M

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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The Williams Institute, an LGBT-related think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, has the latest estimate on how many marriage equality-related tourism dollars will roll into New York State in the first year gay couples can marry there: $155 million.

"The estimate is based on the experience of the five previous states that have extended marriage to same-sex couples and new Census 2010 data for New York released just last week," according to a release from the think-tank.

New York is already a huge magnet for domestic and international tourism, and its new policy should only add to its allure.

Click here to read more about the Williams Institute.

The Empire State tourism boom would be greater than that experienced from the other five marriage equality states combined. When California voters narrowly banned marriage equality in 2008, the wording of the ballot initiative warned that the state could lose out on tens of millions of tourism dollars should Prop. 8 pass.