Census Bureau To Gay Singles: You May As Well Be Straight

This reverses a decision last summer by the Bureau (under pressure from the Bushies) not to recognize legally recognized gay marriages. This “change” actually requires no new checkboxes on census forms, as gay marrieds will simply have to check off “husband,” “wife” or “unmarried partner” like everyone else. The Census Bureau will just refrain from ignoring it when gays do this now, as thousands already did in 2000.

One issue is that some same-sex couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships already identified themselves as husbands or wives, both in the 2000 census and in the annual American Community Survey that the bureau produces each year. So the bureau needs to figure out a way either to separate those couples from legally married couples in the next census, or to create a new designation to capture both groups.

No word on how the Bureau intends to count unmarried gay singles, who may as well be straight in the coming census count.  Apparently the government people-counters only care if you’re in a committed, monogamous, stifling and ennervating relationship and not if you simply like to suck dick for sport.

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0 thoughts on “Census Bureau To Gay Singles: You May As Well Be Straight”

  1. I am SO glad someone called this out. I have advocated for marriage equality for decades — in 1989, I was even on CNN leading a protest about it. But I’m concerned that so many LGBT organizations seem to focus on it to the exclusion of all the other issues we face. And the more we focus on it, the more I feel like a second class citizen not because I’m gay and can’t yet get married, but because I’m single and this preoccupation suggests I’m less of a person because of it.

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