Barnes & Noble continues to demonstrate equality

NEW YORK, N.Y. Barnes & Noble announced that it has earned the top rating of 100% for the second year in a row in the 2010 Corporate Equality Index, CEI, an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Barnes & Noble joins the ranks of 304 other major U.S. businesses which received top marks for their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers.

The CEI rated 590 businesses in total on a scale from 0 to 100%, evaluating LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination policies, transgender health benefits and domestic partner benefits. Barnes & Noble’s efforts in LGBT equality in each of the survey’s main criterion earned it the 100% ranking.

For more information on the 2010 CEI, or to download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei.