From San Antonio:"Other priorities for the city include taking additional steps...to fight any 'religious freedom' bills which would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT individuals or same sex couples. (City Intergovernmental Relations Director Jeff Coyle) says those measures have been proven to be detrimental to a city's ability to attract new employers or major events like sports championships."

"Those who are more likely to be pro-LGBT tend to be younger, better educated, more open-minded, more likely to come from diverse backgrounds, more willing to take risks, and to exhibit a stronger ideological liberalism — traits that correlate with higher creativity ... After a state adopts an ENDA, more pro-LGBT individuals tend to relocate into that state, while more anti-LGBT individuals tend to leave for other states. Our theory is that because the pro-LGBT individuals are likely to be more creative than the anti-LGBT ones, corporate innovation is enhanced ... We found that when a state adopts an ENDA, a large number of inventors relocate from other states to that state within three years."

Millennials are the largest group in the American workforce."By nearly 2-1, they say transgender individuals should be able to use public bathrooms designated for the gender they identify with, not the sex they were born." And more than 7 in 10 say discrimination against the LGBTQ community is "a big problem."