Dallas received a score of 100 on Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. In Texas, 25 cities were rated. Arlington, Austin, Fort Worth and San Antonio also received top scores.
Houston scored 76. Of cities in the DFW area that were included, Denton received 78, Garland 24, Grand Prairie 36, Irving 47, McKinney 36, Mesquite 39 and Plano 64.
Click here to see how other Texas cities fared. To see the full report, go here. In this year’s MEI, 506 cities were included.
That includes 50 state capitals, the five largest cities in each state, the 200 largest cities in the U.S., the cities hosting each state’s two largest public universities, 75 cities with a high proportion of same-sex couples and self-submitted cities.