Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles improperly revoked a gay-youth advocacy group's specialty license plate last year and should reinstate that plate by late June, an administrative law judge has ruled. [ Read more → ]

FARMERSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana high school teacher whose comment that she believes gays have no purpose in life has been suspended amid tighter security at her school. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS — A coalition of gay rights organizations is trying to bolster the confidence of gay teens in response to an Indiana teacher's assertion that gays have no purpose in life. [ Read more → ]

HYMERA, Ind. -- An Indiana school district said Tuesday that a special education teacher who said that gays have no purpose and that LGBT teens were "offensive," was simply "expressing her First Amendment rights." [ Read more → ]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and activist Dan Savage, founder of the "It Gets Better" project, joined a chorus of LGBT advocates from across the country in condemning a group of students and parents in Sullivan, Ind., who met Sunday to discuss plans for a high school prom that would exclude gay and lesbian students. [ Read more → ]

SULLIVAN, Ind. -- A group of high school students and parents rallied Sunday at a local church in Sullivan, Ind., calling for a "traditional" high school prom that bans gay students from attending. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's Republican House and Senate leaders said Thursday they will wait a year before they take up an effort to write a gay marriage ban into the state's constitution. [ Read more → ]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The mayor of Bloomington presided over a symbolic "wedding" ceremony for 13 same-sex couples to protest a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Indiana. [ Read more → ]

Two years ago today, Billy (William) Lucas, a 15-year-old from Greensburg, Ind., was was found dead in a barn at his grandmother’s home — he had hanged himself. While Billy never self-identified as gay, friends said he was tormented for years because other kids thought he was gay. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An openly gay Indiana teen, who was expelled from school earlier this year because he brought a stun gun to school to ward off bullies, has filed a lawsuit claiming the school district did nothing to prevent the “relentless, severe harassment.” [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Inc. -- The owner of a gay bar in Indianapolis said he is certain that a blown out window at his establishment is more than a random act of violence, he thinks it may be a hate crime. [ Read more → ]

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- LGBT employees and allies at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., celebrated this year's Pride with a rainbow flag raised at the factory on Sunday. [ Read more → ]

GREENSBURG, Ind. -- An Indiana church is on lock down and its pastor has left for an undisclosed location after a video recording surfaced this week of a toddler singing an anti-gay song at the church altar, that included the lyrics, "Ain't no homo going to make it to heaven." [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An independent arbitrator ruled Monday that an Indiana gay teen will remain expelled from Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis until January 7, 2013 for discharging a stun gun on school property to discourage an attack by bullies. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An Indiana gay teen on Wednesday faced a private school district review board, an effort to expel him after he discharged a stun gun on school property to discourage an attack by school bullies. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles on Friday confirmed that the agency has revoked permission and sale of specialty license plates that benefit the Indiana Youth Group, an LGBT youth advocacy organization [ Read more → ]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A proposal to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is back before the South Bend, Ind. city council. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Indiana GOP Lawmakers are rushing to revive a bill that targeted specialty auto license plates before the scheduled end of the legislative session on Friday. [ Read more → ]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Indiana has become the first state in the nation to offer specialty automobile license plates promoting awareness of gay youth groups. [ Read more → ]

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A measure which was passed Monday by an unanimous vote of the city council, amends the Evansville city's municipal code to include provisions against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. [ Read more → ]