152 [S2E55]: Lilliana Young pf the City/County Human Rights Commission, on the Municipal Equality Index

It's our penultimate show of our season 2, which began in August, and of the year 2024. Today we meet Lilliana Young, a member of the Bloomington/Monroe County Human Rights Commission, to talk about Bloomington's performance on the Municipal Equality Index. That's the Human Rights Campaign's annual report on how cities across the nation are doing by the LGBTQ+ population. This is the tenth consecutive year that Bloomington has achieved a perfect score on that Index, and we dig into why. We also talk with her about the Sisterhood of Bloomington, an alliance of trans women that she helped found and leads; she's styled herself the "matriarch" of the social and activist group. We talk about how they get by and the ceremony they conducted on November 20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, on the steps of City Hall.