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Is there a gender gap when it comes to gay marriage? Sounds funny to ask the question that way, but looking at the statistics of gay marriages that have taken place on Cape Cod, since the beginning of time, or one year ago actually, an interesting trend has emerged.

Except for Provincetown, it seems that most gay marriages performed here are between women. Significantly so, like 2 to 1. Much to our surprise, it would appear that the gay couples living among us are predominately women, or at least, the gay couples willing to get married are mostly women. And they tend to get married in their own community.

It would also appear then that gay men, even though their numbers may be greater, are not as eager to get married. They may not be as monogamous, or they may not need the safety net of a marriage certificate. Gay or straight, sounds very familiar, if you're a guy.

Except for P-Town. There are obviously a disporportionate number of gay marriages in P-Town, even for P-Town. This suggests that gay couples, mostly men, from around the state, are traveling to P-Town to marry, bypassing alot of other lovely communities along he way, like their own.

So the boys who want to marry, go to P-Town and the girls who marry, go to their town hall.

As the local town clerks struggle to make the relevent information fit into new marriage certificates, a new issue has cropped up. What to do with the birth certificates of children born to a legally married gay couple?

They told us that this was going to get complicated. And just wait until the first gay marriage couples end up in divorce court. Be careful what you wish for, you may not like what you get.