Principal investigator: Benjamin Forest Professor, Geography McGill |
Abstract: Are the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of cities in the U.S. related to municipal-level policies toward LGBTQ issues? This study analyzes the relationship between these factors and the Municipal Equality Index (MEI) calculated by the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy organization for the LGBTQ community.
Members involved in the project:
- Allison Harell – Professor, Political Science, UQÀM
Presentations
- Forest, Benjamin. Scales of Equality: LGBT Rights in States and Cities, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, (2015-04)