8 FL Cities Earn Perfect Scores For LGBTQ Equality In 2025 HRC Index

Eight Florida cities received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 Municipal Equality Index.

The cities in the Sunshine State that earned a 100 are Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, Oakland Park, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tampa and Wilton Manors, according to the index.

The MEI examines how inclusive municipal laws, policies, and services are of LGBTQ+ people who live and work in more than 500 cities across the country. The index evaluated 20 cities in Florida this year.

Cities are rated based on non-discrimination laws, the municipality as an employer, municipal services, law enforcement and leadership on LGBTQ+ equality.

The MEI “demonstrates the ways that many cities can — and do — support the LGBTQ+ people who live and work there, even where states and the federal government have failed to do so,” according to the index. “Unfortunately, many of the anti-LGBTQ+ state laws enacted this year negated or overrode positive efforts several cities have made over the years, especially in regard to cities offering inclusive health care policies for transgender employees or transgender family members of employees.”

The following Florida cities were also evaluated on the MEI and received a score of less than 100:

• Cape Coral: 56
• Coral Gables: 92
• Daytona Beach: 39
• Gainesville: 84
• Hialeah: 54
• Jacksonville: 73
• Lake Worth Beach: 91
• Miami Shores: 92
• Pembroke Pines: 69
• Port Saint Lucie: 77
• Tallahassee: 96