HRC Buyer's Guide - How Does Your Favorite Company Score on Equality?

The information in this guide comes from the 2009 Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual report card on corporate America’s treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

Businesses are rated on a scale from 0 to 100, based on whether or not they have policies that support LGBT people. These include anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training, transgender-inclusive benefits and external practices.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation researches policies at more than 1,800 companies (including the Fortune 1000 and American Lawyer 200). However, we don’t rate a business until we have collected and verified all the information we need. In all, we rated 584 companies in 2009.

Any business with 500 or more U.S. employees can be rated. If you don’t see a company listed, contact the Human Rights Campaign with any information you have about its policies on LGBT issues. Or, write the business and tell it you make purchasing decisions based on how it scored in this guide.