I have mixed feelings on the whole "Queer the Census" concept. On the one hand, yeah, it'd be nice to have more awareness of queerness all around, and statistics would help with that. On the other, I'm not sure it's something the census should measure, any more than it measures religion. (The basic census form, at least, does not mention religion. I gather there's a more detailed form that some households get.)
Counting heads & income levels & location & education are all what I think of as public statistics; I'm not sure personal details should be tangled into that. Any attempt to "count" sexualities or orientations is going to leave people out, because unlike income levels, there aren't nice neat boundaries where you can say "if you're in Category A, you're not in Category B."
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Date: 2010-03-12 03:35 pm (UTC)Counting heads & income levels & location & education are all what I think of as public statistics; I'm not sure personal details should be tangled into that. Any attempt to "count" sexualities or orientations is going to leave people out, because unlike income levels, there aren't nice neat boundaries where you can say "if you're in Category A, you're not in Category B."