Press Release
For Third Year in a Row, City of Milwaukee Celebrates 100 Percent Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index Score
MILWAUKEE December, 9 2020, Mayor
JoCasta Zamarripa, and representatives from the Human Rights Campaign, Fair Wisconsin, FORGE and the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center to announce today that the City of Milwaukee received yet another perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipality Equality Index. Only 94 out of a total of 506 cities rated received perfect scores.
“Our perfect score demonstrates that the City of Milwaukee values everyone who lives, works and visits here; We are an inclusive and welcoming city for all,” said Mayor Tom Barrett. “I want to issue a friendly challenge to other cities like Appleton, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Kenosha and Racine to join Milwaukee and Madison in scoring 100. Let’s show everyone not only how inclusive Milwaukee is, but how welcoming, open and fair the whole State of Wisconsin is.”