The brightly painted purple front door probably should have been a clue

[eridani]

I interviewed a gay man for the census today who had two roommates who are married to each other in all the senses except the legal one. They weren't home, so I had to put down their relationship to him (Person 1) as "housemate or roommate," not their relationship to each other. The interviewee wanted to know if there wasn't some way I could indicate the commitment of his two friends, so I said I'd put it in the Notes section of the form. Don't know what the Census Bureau will do with that, but I thought it was at least worth a try to get their relationship counted.

I said in parting that we were going to win on this eventually.