Alabama's largest city earned the state's highest ranking when it comes to laws impacting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community, according to a new study by the Human Rights Campaign.

That state ranking is relative, however. The state as a whole received the worst marks in the country for laws and policies related to LGBT people. The HRC's Municipal Equality Index ranked 353 cities from every state and examined non-discrimination laws, services and programs and relationship with the LGBT community, among other factors. The cities received scores based on 1 to 100.

On that scale, Birmingham received a nine and Montgomery an eight. Huntsville and Mobile each received fours and Tuscaloosa a three. Less than 4 percent of the cities surveyed earned less than 10 points.

The average score for all cities was 59.

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