Gay and Lesbian Connection

Here’s a list of companies recognized for earning a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index survey, a national rating that grades Fortune 500 companies and national law firms on their LGBT efforts.

In order for companies to earn a perfect score, they must offer benefits to same-sex partners of employees, and have a nondiscrimination policy that includes protection for transgender employees. Companies must also offer domestic-partner health benefits as well as house an LGBT employee-resource group or a diversity council and engage in appropriate and respectful advertising and marketing.

Johnson & Johnson

AT&T

Ernst & Young

Marriott International

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sodexo

Kaiser Permanente

Merck & Co.

The Coca-Cola Co.

IBM Corp.

Procter & Gamble

American Express

Bank of America

JPMorgan Chase

Cox Communications

Accenture

PepsiCo

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.

KPMG

Health Care Service Corp.

Capital One Financial Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

Wells Fargo & Co.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida

Deloitte

HSBC - North America

Xerox Corp.

Monsanto Co.

Time Warner Cable

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

Toyota Motor North America

MasterCard Worldwide

Cummins

MetLife

Prudential Financial

SC Johnson

General Mills

Aetna

KeyBank

 

Automatic Data Processing

BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina

Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Chrysler

Cisco Systems

Citi

Dell

Fannie Mae

General Motors Corp.. HP

Macy’s

Microsoft Corp.

Sprint

Target Corp.

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, issued the following statement today on the Florida federal court ruling to allow a gay-straight alliance (GSA) group to meet on school grounds. ??The ruling follows a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in November 2006 after students at Okeechobee High School were denied access to meet on campus. U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore upheld his earlier ruling that GSAs do not interfere with Florida’s policy of abstinence-only education and, for the first time, held that schools must provide for the well-being of gay students.??In a statement from HRC Senior Youth & Campus Outreach Senior Manager Candace Gingrich said:??“The ruling makes it crystal clear that students have the absolute right to form Gay-Straight Alliances and that schools need to consider the welfare of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. This is a victory for all students in Florida – not just those who are GLBT but for their straight allies and those with GLBT family members. ?

?“For too many GLBT students, school is not a place where they can feel comfortable or safe. Yazmin Gonzales, the student who attempted to form the GSA in this case said it perfectly, ‘You shouldn’t have to grow up feeling like you’re alone.’ Thanks to her bravery, a lot less GLBT students will feel that way.�

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