The social stigma attached to same-sex attraction, along with the limited availability of same-sex outlets, are likely to cause difficulties to homosexual people in attracting intimate partners. Based on this reasoning, the current study aimed to test the hypothesis that homosexual people would be more likely to be involuntarily single, and would experience longer spells of singlehood than people of other sexual orientations. Evidence from a sample of 10,939 Greek-speaking participants, indicated that homosexual people were not less likely than people of other sexual orientations to be in a relationship than involuntarily single. However, homosexual people were considerably less likely to be married than people of other sexual orientations, with the effect being more pronounce for men than for women. In addition, male homosexuals experienced longer spells of singlehood than men of other sexual orientations, but no such effect was found for women.

同性吸引力相关的社会耻辱，以及同性渠道的有限可用性，可能会给同性恋者吸引亲密伴侣带来困难。基于这一推理，目前的研究旨在检验这样一种假设，即同性恋者更有可能不由自主地单身，并且比其他性取向的人经历更长的单身期。来自 10,939 名讲希腊语的参与者样本的证据表明，与其他性取向的人相比，同性恋者与非自愿单身的人相比，同性恋的可能性并不小。然而，与其他性取向的人相比，同性恋者结婚的可能性要小得多，男性的影响比女性更明显。此外，