miamiherald.typepad.com – Steve Rothaus
News release from Latino Equality Alliance:
Latino LGBT and civil rights organizations hold community forum for “hard to count” community to discuss importance of being included in the 2010 Census.
Los Angeles, CA – The Latino Equality Alliance (LEA) – an alliance of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community based groups – MALDEF and the Census Bureau held a community forum last Saturday, February 27 with numerous families in Highland Park, a largely Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles, to discuss why and how the LGBT community should be counted in the 2010 Census. The first of its kind, the forum was to educate same-sex Latino couples on how to fill out the Census form to make sure that LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) couples participate and are counted.