Queer the census

[soleta_nf]

My friend asked me to post this:

If you're American, you can queer the census, whether you're G, L, B, T, or a straight ally.

Comments

[hnarbit]

I agree with you on the gender issue entirely. I feel like opening the Census up to questioning sexuality could be perceived by some to be a slippery slope. In all honesty, I don't care. But as I pointed out, then is the Census to be used to count religion, disability, education level, etc.? Surely the government has a vested interest in those and more issues as well. The Census isn't meant to be a data collection tool on all possible aspects of American life. However, they used to ask if you had a radio (1930, I think), so obviously this is an evolving practice. It will be interesting to see where it goes.

Here's a paragraph from an e-mail I just got from a gov docs listserve:
The second link (http://2010.census.gov/mediacenter/fill-out-your-form/index.php?v,n22) includes a video in English and another in Spanish for the LGBT community. I heard a report on NPR while driving home last Friday that our nation's LGBT community wants the Census Bureau to begin including questions about being LGBT in future Censuses (and actually want questions in the 2010 Census). A question or two will probably appear in a future American Community Survey/s between 2010 and 2020, and then in the 2020 Census, but there are no LGBT questions in the 2010 Census.