Let the maps begin! Williams Institute releases first data from Census 2010

Long before I met the incomparable Gary Gates, I admired his work. While at the Urban Institute, Gates co-authored The Gay and Lesbian Atlas, a book with color-coded maps, by state and county, of the numbers of same-sex couples in the entire United States. It is the book that proved the old adage that "we are everywhere." Literally. The data in Atlas came from the 2000 Census. It was quite a

How same-sex couples fill out the 2010 census form -- is it really asking how we think of our relationships?

If thinking of yourself as married to your partner turned you into husband and husband or wife and wife, then we wouldn't need a marriage equality movement, right? So imagine my puzzlement to find gay organizations instructing us to fill out the 2010 census based on how we think of our relationships. The Williams Institute, to whom I turn for all things demographic about gay men and lesbians,