HRC Score for all Major Cities... (Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago)

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Im mainly making this thread because I wanted to see all the numbers on an organized list. Im mainly looking at mid-sized and major cities. I feel its a relatively good, albeit not perfect, measure of LGBT friendliness. For example, Id be somewhat surprised if Akron is more gay friendly than Portland, but Im also not closed off to that idea.

As a disclaimer, I am not advocating for the use of this scale as the end all be all and I recognize it is more complex than that.

Feel free to comment:

These cities all got 100 (in no particular order):

San Francisco
Los Angeles
Long Beach
San Diego
Sacramento
San Jose
Chicago
Cedar Rapids, IA
Minneapolis
St. Paul
St. Louis
Kansas City, MO
Las Vegas
Boston
Detroit
Baltimore
Louisville
Atlanta
Orlando
Phoenix
Tucson
Denver
Cincinnati
Columbus
Dayton
Akron
New York City
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Providence
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
Seattle
Olympia, WA
Madison, WI

Here are the rest:

Des Moines: 97
Hartford: 96
San Antonio: 95
Huntington, WV: 95
Buffalo, NY: 95
Lexington, KY: 92
Milwaukee: 90
New Orleans: 89
Tacoma, WA: 89
Indianapolis: 88
Portland, OR: 88
Fort Lauderdale: 87
Anchorage: 85
Birmingham, AL: 83
Tampa: 83
Greensboro: 82
Cleveland: 81
Portland, ME: 80
Grand Rapids: 76
Spokane, WA: 76
Houston: 75
Shreveport: 75
Columbia, SC: 75
Albuquerque: 74
Charlotte: 74
Omaha: 72
Boise: 71
Jackson, MS: 71
Trenton, NJ: 69
Salt Lake City: 68
Charleston, WV: 67
Charleston, SC: 67
Newark, NJ: 67
Santa Fe: 65
Fargo: 63
Sioux Falls: 63
Bakersfield: 60
Raleigh: 60
Nashville: 60
Bangor, ME: 59
Bozeman, MT: 59
Miami: 59
Knoxville: 58
Fresno: 57
El Paso: 57
Virginia Beach: 54
Colorado Springs: 53
Memphis: 53
Lincoln, NE: 52
Winston-Salem: 48
Little Rock: 45
Honolulu: 45
Richmond, VA: 42
Corpus Christi: 42
Oklahoma City: 41
Manchester, NH: 39
Fairbanks: 35
Tulsa: 34
Fairfax, VA: 33
Wichita: 31
Greenville: 22
Rapid City: 19
Billings, MT: 18
Huntsville, AL: 17

https://www.hrc.org/resources/mei-20...ur-citys-score

[Shakeesha]

Ok Akron and Dayton are not playing any games.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by Shakeesha

Ok Akron and Dayton are not playing any games.

Yeah that's a surprise...good for them!

I'm sure some would be surprised to see smaller Southern cities like Birmingham, Greensboro, Columbia, Shreveport, and Jackson scoring as high as they do.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

Yeah that's a surprise...good for them!

I'm sure some would be surprised to see smaller Southern cities like Birmingham, Greensboro, Columbia, Shreveport, and Jackson scoring as high as they do.

Huntington WV is another surprise...

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Huntington WV is another surprise...

Of all the cities on the list, that was the one that surprised me the most. I guess since its a college town, its not that surprising.

[Mutiny77]

Birmingham deserves major props as it went from a score of 12 in 2016 to 83 in 2017. That's a huge improvement...maybe even the biggest improvement of all cities.

[Chicago60614]

Shocked Fairfax, VA and Honolulu are so far down the list. That's too bad.

[_OT]

Lmao Huntsville

[mjtinmemphis]

There may be some truth to this list. Chicago, Minneapolis St. Louis and KC are all good. Nice to see Louisville KY.

Surprised to see Indianapolis so low on the list

Nashville, Memphis, Miami and Charlotte needs to get with the program. Especially Miami.

Huntsville...really!

[the resident09]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

Shocked Fairfax, VA and Honolulu are so far down the list. That's too bad.

Fairfax city, not the county is what I believe is being considered here. The city is pretty tiny and tight knit, however at least made the list. Considering the whole 1.1 million person county it would probably be much higher.

I stand corrected that is the whole county, interesting...