Census

An under-count could starve our communities of much-needed funding and shift political representation in ways that negatively impact LGBTQ people.

…That the government knows about.

Pakistan has transgender policies that would be political poison in the U.S.

You can’t “erase” LGBTQ people from the census since they’ve never counted us.

Matt Baume offers a quick, queer debrief of the week’s news for the LGBTQ community.

Under orders from Trump officials, the 2020 Census will exclude questions about sexual orientation and gender, basically erasing LGBTQ Americans.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Census Bureau will begin recognizing married, same-sex couples as families in its 2013 American Community Survey report, due out in September.

Matt Barber of the right-wing Liberty Counsel is angry at President Obama and the Census Bureau for recognizing same-sex couples.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday unveiled new data revealing that 131,729 married same-sex couples and 514,735 same-sex unmarried couples live in the United States. Based on information compiled as part of the 2010 Census — the first time ever data on gay couples was collected as part of the effort — the new figures […]

Legally married gay couples won’t show up as such in the official once-a-decade tally in 2010, Census bureau representatives said Thursday. Citing “statistical problems related to the development of the 2010 census form and the evolving legal state of same-sex relationships,” Census officials have concluded that including married gay couples in the overall snapshot of […]