Obstacles to family formation have been removed in many countries outside of theAnglophone world for quite some time. Conventional knowledge suggests that thisphenomenon should make gay men and lesbians more similar to the general popula-tion. In this study, however, we show that differences linger. By classifying Swedishneighbourhoods into multiscalar neighbourhood landscapes, we show that same-sexmarried individuals differ from both married individuals and the general population. Same-sex married individuals are concentrated in cores in metropolitan citiescharacterised by the ownership tenure form and apartment buildings. In general,same-sex individuals avoid remote rural areas, but same-sex females are quitepresent in rural towns. Same-sex males are concentrated to areas that borderdeprived areas but not to deprived areas. These results suggest that there is a needto move beyond legal agendas and consider what drives the residential mobility ofthe gay and lesbian population.