🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE 2026: How US States Rate on Various LGBTQ+ Issues

Here is a rating of various states on various LGBTQ+ issues. The focus is mostly on the business environment, but many of the issues listed matter for colleges and college students.

Note that some of its sources include the following:

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Thanks for sharing, @ucbalumnus!

Here is the top 10:

Here is the bottom 10:

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Semi-related, I’m guessing Campus Pride Index has ceased to exist? The website now goes to an unrelated site placeholder/spam account. I never saw any kind of official closing-the-shop message or anything. Anyone have insight?

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(We need a :rainbow: reaction emoji!)

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Their founder of Campus Pride was ousted at the end of 2024, due to allegations of fraud, and the websites of the organization all stopped working at the end of December 2025. The organization seems to have simply disappeared, since they made no announcements.

Unfortunately, this warning is relevant to this thread:

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Oh interesting. I hadn’t started the process for my kiddo at that point and missed that news!

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