Mississippi is also home to Southaven, one of the few cities in the country to score a zero out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. (A Daily Beast survey gave the state a -1 score on gay rights.) In addition, a survey from the Guardian showed that the state has almost no protections for LGBT people, outright banning marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples. As just 34 percent of the state’s population believes in the freedom to marry, Silver estimates that the Mississippi electorate wouldn’t get around to it for another decade or so. Some of the states on this list will be no-brainers others might surprise you.Īccording to electoral wunderkind Nate Silver, Mississippi will likely be the last state in the country to pass marriage equality on its own. Here is a researched list of the worst states for LGBT Americans. “We see in the South historic racism that’s more entrenched – not that there’s not racism everywhere else. “Where we see one kind of oppression, we also see another,” Signorile says. So where do LGBT people have it worst? According to Michaelangelo Signorile, the editor-at-large for the Huffington Post’s Gay Voices section, the worst states are clustered in the Midwest and the Bible Belt South. RS Recommends: 5 Devices You Need to Set Up Your Smart Home Risky Business: Every Tom Cruise Film, Ranked - Updated