The City of Hoboken earned a perfect score for LGBTQ+ equality for the seventh year in a row from the 2024 Municipal Equality Index (MEI).
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“The City of Hoboken is proud to once again be recognized as a leader in promoting LGBTQ+ equality,” Mayor Ravi Bhalla said in a statement.
“Our perfect score on the MEI reflects the City’s unwavering commitment to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and safe community for everyone who lives, works, or studies in Hoboken. I am especially proud of our Pride Advisory Committee’s efforts to uplift and celebrate the rich diversity within our city.”
The MEI, conducted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, is the only nationwide evaluation of LGBTQ+ equality in municipal governance.
This year, it assessed 506 cities based on 49 criteria across five categories: non-discrimination laws, municipal employment policies, city services, law enforcement practices, and public leadership on LGBTQ+ issues.
“I’m proud that Hoboken continues to have a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index, which reflects Mayor Bhalla’s and the City Council’s continued support for basic civil rights for Hoboken’s LGBTQIA+ residents,” added Hoboken Pride Advisory Committee Chair Catherine Williams.
“Even more important, though, is the fact that our city government recognizes that work remains to be done to ensure that Hoboken is a safe and welcoming place for all residents, including LGBTQIA+ citizens. The City’s LGBTQ+ Pride Advisory Committee looks forward to working with the Mayor and City Council members to make even greater progress for Hoboken’s LGBTQIA+ community in the coming year.”
In January, Bhalla signed an executive order creating a 12-member LGBTQIA+ Pride Advisory Committee, where each member will serve a one-year term.
Neighboring Jersey City also scored a perfect 100 from the 2024 MEI, marking the 12th year in a row that they did so.
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Hoboken is being assaulted with government backed “Pride.” That’s not what taxpayer money should be used for and obese men dressed up as women have no business sexually dancing for children.
Leave the children alone already. They’ve put cartoon “books” in the library to instruct boys how to perform oral sex. Then people like Ravi and Emily Jabbour call it “books” and “literature.”
Are you going to teach girls how to perform oral sex on older females next? Why not? You’re already doing NAMBLA’s work so you progressives can’t discriminate now.
Degenerates.