2010 Census Will Count Same-Sex Couples

via NPR

Next year, for the first time, the United States census will count same-sex couples who identify themselves as spouses. Previously these people were identified as unmarried partners. Guest host Jennifer Ludden discusses the effort and its implications for the gay rights movement with demographer Gary Gates; he's a senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law, and a member of "Our Families Count," a census advocacy campaign for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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