Tuesday night, Equality Texas in Austin and the U.S. Census hosted the first LGBT Town Hall in the country!
In an extraordinary policy change, the Census Bureau recently announced that when gay and lesbian couples indicate they are married on the 2010 form, the Census will count them as married. The Census is the first Federal agency to recognize marriage of gay and lesbian couples, even though it does not ask anyone about their sexual orientation.
There are many reasons why participating in this Census is important to the LGBT community, but the more obvious reason is that it affects how more than $400 billion of federal funding is spent each year on everything from hospitals to schools and job training. The Census also provides visibility to LGBT households by assuring they are counted, and this visibility opens the opportunity for contact with groups that can become allies.
The form is short, it’s simply and it’s important. Fill It Out. Mail It Back!
Read more: 2010.census.gov/2010census/
07/16/10: If you still haven’t read the Republican GOP Platform,
now’s the time to do so. It’s also the time to take action and make it known that you
07/09/10: Federal gay marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional
The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the
07/24/10: Widow of Heroic Firefighter Fighting for Justice
Mrs. Nikki Araguz is the widow of a Wharton Co. fire fighter killed in the line of duty. In a compound tragedy, Mrs.
07/16/10: Argentina Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to embrace same-sex marriage nationwide by legalizing it. Despite the
Dedicated to educating and mobilizing straight allies to advance equal rights for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender partners, parents and their children.
Sign Up
donate
Help us to grow Atticus Circle and stand up to advance equal rights!
Help us to grow Atticus Circle and stand up to advance equal rights!
Hey, I've got a crazy idea!
Hey, I've got a crazy idea! Instead of welcoming us, the loyal Blackberry users, to kick the tires around the new blog, why not put the elves to work on adding a new little link to the homepage that takes MB3-210 us directly to some sort of "Network Status" page? Maybe that way we could come here first to see when our devices are in paperweight mode instead of calling all our respective MB3-214 service providers to get the response of "RIM is having nationwide problems again, so it's not a (insert carrier name here) network problem, it's specifically a Blackberry problem."MB3-215 And in light of these situations, especially considering that this is the second nationwide outage in about a week, MB3-216 what about allowing us to use a POP e-mail solution on our Blackberry devices when the network does suffer a nationwide failure?
000-101Certainly, it was to
000-101Certainly, it was to be expected. With the Defense of Marriage Act one of the more high-profile and controversial matters the Supreme Court might be enlisted to rule on, it's no surprise that DOMA000-102Certainly, it was to be expected. With the Defense of Marriage Act one of the more high-profile and controversial matters the Supreme Court might be enlisted to rule on, it's no surprise that DOMA000-134Certainly, it was to be expected. With the Defense of Marriage Act one of the more high-profile and controversial matters the Supreme Court might be enlisted to rule on, it's no surprise that DOMA000-200