Better data processing methods, says the U.S. Census.

"We don't think Census is doing us dirty here," says Jaime Grant of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C., which has been pushing for Census recognition of gay couples. "They improved the way they designed the form, so they got fewer false reports from opposite-sex partners. But I still think it doesn't mean we're getting the full picture of LGBT people across the board."

The haters will seize on this, of course, as evidence that, um, I'm not sure what they'll claim it proves—that Playboy will make your sons gay, I guess, if your sons knew what Playboy was.