Posted on 11/14/2014 2:37:12 PM PST by smokingfrog
Six California cities received perfect scores for having the best policies and laws for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents and employees.
Long Beach, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco and West Hollywood each scored 100 on the 2014 Municipal Equality Index. The index compares the nation's 200 largest cities, all state capitals and cities with high proportions of same-sex couples.
Two national LGBT civil rights organizations, The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Equality Federation Institute, publish the list.
For Long Beach, which recently elected its first openly gay mayor, the city repeated last year's showing with the maximum possible 100 points, said Josh Steichmann, spokesman for Equality California, a civil rights group that helped collect data for the list.
"The first big place that Long Beach gained points was in updating their city non-discrimination policy to include gender identity, ensuring that transgender employees were covered," Steichmann siad. "The second big place they improved was in adding transgender coverage to the city's health care plans."
The city now also offers specific LGBT youth programs through the city-funded Center for Families and Youth, he said. Having LGBT people in visible leadership positions helps a city's ranking as well. Garcia recently joined the governing board of Equality California.
The list is not meant to be a list of the best places for LGBT people to live, because it only evaluates policies, and does not do surveys on quality of life, Steichmann said.
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Which cities scored worst? I want to move there.
poorest were:
Brisbane — 51 points
Bakersfield — 54
Oceanside — 57
Fullerton — 58
Hayward — 58
Harvey Milk was a Pederast. Just saying.
Oceanside, a lot of marines from Camp Pendleton live there. Boy, are they in trouble once Obola hears about this!
But we sure know what cities in CA are most LGBT friendly.
There's probably a 'pride' event every two months over there...after which the city should probably steam clean and disinfect the alleyways.
ditto
“But we sure know what cities in CA are most LGBT friendly.”
We also know that make fruit flies prefer female fruit flies. I made certain that I would commit this to memory, because I helped pay for it.
You know, it’s crap like this that demonstrates that one of the evils of un/underemployment is that it leaves those people with too much time and energy on their hands to make life miserable for those who are employed.
By the way, Sodom and Gomorrah were originally the top two, but were disqualified because they had no amateur standing.
Interesting - two of those (Brisbane and Hayward) are in the SF Bay Area.
Palm Springs which we love (because of naturism) is the only gay friendly town we would move to.
I was raised in Palm Springs but moved away in the mid 1970’s. Has the place changed!!! There were always some queers around but now they dominate.
Milk and Jim Jones were communists...and pure evil.
Sodom and Gomorrah used to score well.
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