PRESS RELEASE: LGBT-rights groups today announced the creation of Our Families Count, a public education campaign to encourage LGBT people to participate in the 2010 U.S. Census.

Equality Federation;
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD);
HONOR PAC;
National Black Justice Coalition;
National Center for Transgender Equality;
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force;
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance;
Unid@s;
and The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law

Our Families Count partners also made an invitation to other movement groups who share in the goal of making next year’s census the most accurate and complete count in history.

How many same-sex couples live in your state?

Census data have done more to make LGBT families and their needs visible than any other source of data we have.

Lee Badgett
Research Director
The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law

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