Following the U.S. Supreme Courts historic rulings on gay rights earlier in the day, a report issued Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign reveals that not a single one of the nations millions of homosexuals actually refer to themselves and their partners as same-sex couples. While the expression same-sex couple is frequently incorporated into legislation, legal proceedings, and throughout the media, our research shows that this is not a term that even one gay person has ever used to describe his or her relationship, said author of the report James Newcastle, 41, who noted that at no point in his own life has he referred to his boyfriend as his same-sex partner. As the evidence demonstrates, whenever two gay people are engaged in a relationship, they usually just say something like, Were dating, or, Were married, or, Were a couple. They might, and its a big might, call themselves a gay couple. But same-sex couple is not a thing that normal people say. Newcastle added, however, that a surprising number of such romantic pairs are now identifying themselves as a queer dyad. 