NPR – 2010 Census Will Count Same-Sex Couples

Next year, for the first time, the United States census will count same-sex couples who identify themselves as spouses. 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. more …

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Gary Gates
Williams Distinguished Scholar
The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law

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