It’s official: We truly are everywhere.

[William769]

901,997 same-sex couples in the United States, and they are represented in 99% of U.S. counties, according to an analysis of 2010 U.S. Census data by the Williams Institute.

The institute, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, also reports that 60% of the couples are female, 40% male, and that 22% of all couples are raising children.

“Child-rearing among same-sex couples is most common in the Deep South and Mountain West regions,” Williams Institute demographer Gary Gates said in a press release. “In these socially conservative areas, LGBT people likely come out later in life and are more likely to have a child from a relationship with a different-sex partner when they were younger.”

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/06/Gay_Couples_in_Almost_Every_US_County/

[JackBeck]

1. This percentage seems relatively the same from 10 years ago.

Hopefully the next census will not only count those of us in the community who are partnered, but also LGB and Transgender people who are single.

[William769]

2. I don't remember the 2000 census.

I kind of want to forget everything that has happened in this century so far.

EDIT: With a few exceptions. ;)

[Meeker Morgan]

3. No no no no no!

Ask the Californians who put down "Japanese ancestry" on the 1940 census.

Are you confident that no future government will want to round up gays?


Being out is one thing. Having a nice little list of us complete with addresses is another.

[Zorra]

4. Love that button!