Tag: MEI
Orlando again rated perfect in LGBTQ equality report
For the third year in a row, Orlando was awarded a perfect score on the Municipal Equality Index, which measures cities’ inclusiveness toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
HRC Releases 2015 Municipal Equality Index with Record Number of Perfect Scores
In historic year for LGBT equality, crucial progress continues at municipal level as local leaders and advocates drive positive change in their communities.
Human Rights Campaign’s 2014 Municipal Equality Index
The City of West Hollywood has scored 100/100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2014 Municipal Equality Index (MEI), a nationwide evaluation of municipal laws affecting the LGBT community of 353 cities. The MEI examines the laws, policies, and services of municipalities of various sizes from every state in the country and rates them on the basis of their inclusivity of LGBT people living and working in those cities. This year’s score once again places the City of West Hollywood at the very top of rated municipalities in the nation.
San Antonio City Council Approves LGBT-Inclusive Updates to Ordinances
San Antonio – the nation’s seventh-largest city – Last Thursday added sexual orientation and gender identity protections into ordinances governing city employment, contracting, housing and public accommodations.
FBI to begin collecting hate crime data on gender identity beginning in 2013
For the first time, crimes directed against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation are the second most frequent hate crime committed after crimes based on race, according to the 2011 Hate Crimes statistics released yesterday by the FBI as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Surpassing crimes committed on the basis on religion, the number of reported hate crimes committed against gay men and lesbians increased from 1,277 in 2010 to 1,293 in 2011.