Alexandria earns perfect score on LGBTQ+ equality index for sixth consecutive year
City joins 132 municipalities nationwide with top rating on Human Rights Campaign's annual assessment
The City of Alexandria has maintained a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 Municipal Equality Index, marking the sixth consecutive year the city has achieved the distinction.
Alexandria joins 132 other U.S. cities in earning a perfect score of 100 points on the annual index, which measures how municipalities advance LGBTQ+ equality. The city also earned a total flex score of 14 points.
The 2025 index represents a record number of cities achieving perfect scores, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation report released this month.
The Municipal Equality Index evaluates cities across five categories: non-discrimination laws, municipality as employer, municipal services, law enforcement and leadership on LGBTQ+ equality.
Alexandria earned perfect scores in all five categories, including 30 points for non-discrimination laws, 28 points for municipal services, 22 points for law enforcement, 12 points for leadership and 8 points for municipality as employer.
The city achieved high marks for protections in employment, housing and public accommodations; transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits; services for LGBTQ+ youth, homeless individuals and older adults; and maintaining a Human Rights Commission with enforcement authority.
Alexandria’s Office of Human Rights, established in 1975, enforces the city’s Human Rights Code, one of the first local human rights laws in Virginia. The code was amended in 1988 to include sexual orientation as a protected class and expanded in 2019 to include gender identity and transgender status.
The city’s full scorecard is available at alexandriava.gov/HumanRights. Additional information about the Municipal Equality Index can be found at hrc.org/MEI.
