The LGBT community is definitely feeling the love from Corporate America.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in issuing its latest Corporate Equality Index this week, said that more Fortune 500 companies than ever implemented inclusive workplace non-discrimination policies in 2013.

Ninety-one percent of the Fortune 500 (vs. 88 percent last year) provided explicit protections on the basis of sexual orientation, while 61 percent (vs. 57 percent last year) did so on the basis of gender identity, a historic high, the Washington, D.C.-based group said.

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