West Hollywood Earns Top Score In Human Rights Campaign Report

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – The City of West Hollywood received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2018 Municipal Equality Index (MEI), a nationwide evaluation of municipal laws affecting the LGBT community, the city press release said. West Hollywood received 15 bonus points in recognition of specific services such as those to LGBT youth, seniors, and homeless people; services to people with HIV/AIDS; and services to transgender people.

The city also received bonus points for its single-occupancy all-gender restrooms, for its work to protect youth from conversion therapy, and for its employee domestic partner benefits, and more, the press release said.

“This is the seventh consecutive year that the City of West Hollywood has received a top score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index,” said West Hollywood Mayor John J. Duran. “With the current administration aiming its intolerance at us, we cannot take for granted our hard-fought rights as LGBT people. We must never stop fighting for our community members here and for LGBT people across the nation.”

The Human Rights Campaign launched the MEI in 2012 and rates cities yearly, examining 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, the press release said. The campaign rated a total of 506 cities this year.

A city’s MEI score is based on its non-discrimination laws, its recognition of relationships, its fairness and inclusiveness as an employer, its municipal services, its law enforcement, and its relationship with its LGBT community. Detailed scorecard information is posted on the HRC website. A PDF scorecard for the City of West Hollywood’s 2018 MEI is available here.

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