Size Doesn't Matter: Vicco Leads on Civil Rights for Gays
Berea, Shelbyville and all you other Kentucky towns that like to think of yourselves as sophisticated cities but reject extending civil rights to all your citizens: tiny Vicco has put you to shame.
Bill Estep at the Herald:
The tiny Eastern Kentucky town of Vicco on Monday became the fourth city in the state to approve local ordinances banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Vicco, in Perry County, was named for a coal company and had a 2010 population of 334. It joins the much larger cities of Lexington, Louisville and Covington as the only ones in Kentucky with local anti-discrimination laws that cover sexual orientation, said Chris Hartman, who is on the steering committee of the statewide Fairness Coalition. The coalition advocates for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
"Vicco is a town that gets that everyone deserves to be treated fairly," Hartman said.
He said Vicco also apparently is the smallest city in the nation with such local anti-discrimination ordinances.
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