States Most Accepting of LGBTQ+ Residents

What is happening? Money.co.uk ranked U.S. states on LGBTQ+ acceptance by looking at “how difficult it is to change the gender marker on a birth certificate and driving license, the level of state support for LGBTQ+ adults who have started or wish to start a family, work safety records, the percentage of adults age18 or older who identify as LGBTQ+ and the percentage of LGBTQ+ adults over 25 years old raising children.”

Why is this important? The Top 10 states are Hawaii, Maine, Vermont, California, Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado and New York. The Top 5 cities are San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago.

How will this be important? There’s a strong geographical marker in that most of the Top 20 states are coastal.

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