The Human Rights Campaign recently released its State Equality index. It’s an annual state-by-state report that reviews statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ+ people and their families. Cathryn Oakley is the senior director for legal policy at the Human Rights Campaign. “I think that it is a sign of where we are politically and socially, culturally. That the states that are in that bottom group, including of course Arkansas, those are all states that I don’t think anyone would be surprised to hear that they’re in the bottom group.”