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There's still time to queer the census while wearing tube socks
By Kate X Messer, Fri., April 9, 2010
COUNT ME QUEERLY It's not too late to turn in your census form. So if you are in a couple and wish to count as a same-sex couple in the U.S. Census, here's what you do: The primary person fills out the first page. If your pard lives with you, then he or she or whomever is the second person. They fill out their slot. But in the second question of their section, they should fill out "husband or wife," not roommate. Yes, I know that unless you are amongst the happy (or miserable!) few who got same-sex married legally, that's some bullshit, but that's what Chuck at Equality Texas told us. Apparently they will collect this data and not change it (as they have in years past) and will share this info. Now, what's totally "queer" about all this is: What about us sad little spinster or happy li'l single sorts? Well, we can still Queer the Census at www.queerthecensus.org; print out the big pink sticker, and slap it on that envelope. Chuck from ET also says: If you are a transgender American, register as your gender, not theirs, and people of color are traditionally underrepped, as the household race is registered by the primary person's race. (See Ongoing Gay Place Listings.)
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