A city score calculated by the country's largest gay rights advocacy group indicates lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have less equality in three out of Louisiana's four largest cities than is average in the United States.
The Human Rights Campaign released its third-annual municipal equality index Wednesday (Nov. 12), and New Orleans is the state's only ranked city with an above-average score for LGBT equality. Nearby Metairie, on the other hand, had the worst of the four cities.
The average score for cities in Louisiana is 42 out of 100 points, which falls below the national average of 59.
The HRC gave Louisiana cities the following scores: Baton Rouge, 22; Metairie, 15; New Orleans, 83; Shreveport, 47.
Baton Rouge's score comes after this summer's rejection by the Baton Rouge Metro Council of a hotly debated LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance.
The scores are based on nearly 50 criteria related to non-discrimination laws, relationship recognition, city employment polices, contracting non-discrimination requirements and others.
Read more about the municipal equality index and see how other U.S. cities rated here.
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