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Contents:

• HB 1608 STARTED AS A 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. NOW TARGETS TRANSGENR NAM, PRONOUNS
• HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA
• INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASS OUT OF MTEE
• FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?
• INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS WOULD BAN TEACHG OF GENR INTY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN
• GAY RIGHTS BILL DI IN INDIANA UNR FIRE FROM BOTH GOP AND LGBT GROUPS
• NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
• INDIANA LAW DENOUNCED AS INVATN TO DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS
• INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS’ GENR INTY
• INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS OUT OF THE SENATE FOLLOWG FLOOR BATE, QUTNG
• INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'
• INDIANA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS' GENR INTY
• INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

HB 1608 STARTED AS A 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. NOW TARGETS TRANSGENR NAM, PRONOUNS

The new law go to effect July the new law:HB 1608 started as a 'don't say gay' bill. Moled on siar legislatn passed Florida last year, which opponents dubbed the "don't say gay" bill, HB 1608 drew strong opposn om the LGBTQ muny and s alli, who were ncerned that the measure would be harmful for LGBTQ HB 1608 was heard Hoe Edutn Commtee on Monday, Feb. 20, took on a new was origally Indiana's 'don't say gay' bill?

Hoe Bill 1608 proposed that employe, school staff members or third party vendors "may not provi any stctn to a stunt krgarten through gra 3" wh a goal to rm stunts about the followg:Genr fluidyGenr rolGenr stereotypGenr intyGenr exprsnSexual orientatnIndiana General Assembly:Lawmakers to nsir 'don't say gay' legislatn 2023How did HB 1608 change to clu transgenr pronouns and nam Indiana schools? 20, the Indiana Hoe mtee on tn sentially killed the "don't say gay" legislatn and stead passed a measure the bill that would prohib schools om llg stunts by nam or pronouns "nsistent" wh their sex assigned at birth whout wrten permissn om parents. Indiana HB 1608:Indiana 'don't say gay' bill changed to target transgenr youthIt also said that the school mt notify parents if a stunt requts a name or pronoun nsistent wh their sex.

HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA

Mike Pence approved chang by lawmakers to a ntroversial state law on relig eedom Thursday, sentially ncedg feat to a ncerted alliance of liberal tert groups and large rporatns over gay rights.

The new versn of the law clarifi that will not allow bs to discrimate agast gay Hoosiers, a fix that Republin backers and Pence had once argued was not necsary. But gay rights groups pot out that the chang only stop discrimatn that might have happened as a rult of the relig eedom law. No Indiana state law explicly bars bs om discrimatg agast gay ctomers.

Still, the quick turnaround on the law a Republin-led red state showed a sea change on how gay rights fights play out. ” Opposn Tak Root The Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act was nceived last year by nservative Indiana lawmakers who sought a bulwark the culture war over gay rights. Lambda Legal, the natnal gay rights group, got a tip om a iendly legislator the Indiana Hoe that a bill was the works and alerted iendly groups and bs.

INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASS OUT OF MTEE

“The bill has been brewg sce gay marriage bee legal October, ” says Jim Bent, Midwt director for Lambda Legal.

Apple’s openly gay CEO Tim Cook, whom civil rights groups had been privately urtg as a key civil rights ally, tweeted his opposn. INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - Indiana lawmakers on Monday nsired their own versn of a “Don’t Say Gay” Bill 1608 has been intified as one of 22 piec of legislatn emed to be trimental to the LGBTQ velopment drew a large and loud crowd of protters to the Indiana Statehoe.

Be stcted or told, that hey, gay bi, trans people, we exist. Yet bullyg and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people  Indiana is a real problem – and Indiana hasn’t taken meangful steps to addrs .

FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?

Even though her school had a gay-straight alliance, she didn’t jo bee she feared the repercsns of g out at school. Senate Bill 344 was the latt velopment the state’s bate over balancg gay rights wh relig liberty. [10][11] The lg the se gave rise to the ia that RFRA uld be ed by social nservativ as a way to protect relig liberty the wake of a 2014 urt cisn that legalized gay marriage Indiana and a failed effort to get a nstutnal ban on the ballot 2014.

INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS WOULD BAN TEACHG OF GENR INTY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN

But Indiana lawmakers me unr attack over ncerns that the law uld legally allow Indiana bs owners to refe service to lbians, gays, bisexuals, or transgenr ctomers based on their relig beliefs. After Indiana received negative attentn for s RFRA 2015, Long, as the Senate Republin lear, and other Indiana lawmakers looked to turn the page on the issue by passg a measure prohibg discrimatn agast lbians, gays, and bisexuals.

Bob Behng, chair of the Hoe Edutn Commtee, said December that Indiana might follow the lead of Florida, which last year enacted siar legislatn lled the Parental Rights Edutn Act that’s equently referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Davis has also troduced one of the bills this year that seeks to ban medil profsnals om providg genr transng or puberty-blockg procr to bill om Davis that’s siar to the “Don’t Say Gay” law appears to be missg some ponents of the Florida statute, cludg the optn for parents to sue a school district for vlatg the law.

GAY RIGHTS BILL DI IN INDIANA UNR FIRE FROM BOTH GOP AND LGBT GROUPS

Watched natnally as a bellwether for LGBT-rights legislatn GOP-led pals, Senate Bill 344 was nomally tend to expand the rights of lbians, gays, and bisexuals. Dpe signg that fix to law, polls have sce found some people perceive the state as unwelg while bs groups ntend Indiana has lost lns nventn and tourism year's bill, crics said, allowed relig social service provirs and small bs to raise a fah-based fense if they turned away gays and bill also lacked any protectns for transgenr people — which LGBT advot and bs terts nsired a the issue of LGBT rights is hardly ad print pro tempore David Long, the hight rankg Republin the chamber, said Tuday, "We'll e back to have this nversatn, jt not this year. Across the Uned Stat, at least a dozen stat are nsirg new legislatn that several ways will mirror Florida's new ntroversial law, referred to by some opponents as "Don't Say Gay.

"The stutnalizatn of the bills is an overt form of stctural transphobia and homophobia, and go agast all public health evince creatg a safe and supportive environment for transgenr, nonbary, queer, gay and lbian youths and teachers to thrive, " Arjee Rtar, assistant profsor of epimlogy at the Universy of Washgton, told NPR. Rtar, a social epimlogist and health equy advote, said the ntroversial bills will lim all youths to live to their fullt potential, addg "there should be no room for transphobia and homophobia — pecially the classroom.

NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

" Tennsee's HB 800 bans books and stctnal materials "that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyle.

Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a law barrg any stctn on HIV or AIDS that that "promot a homosexual liftyle, " they are close to enactg a broad remake of the state's sex tn laws wh a particular foc on LGBTQ issu. "Florida may be the first this wave, but there have been other laws the past that were lled 'no promo homo' laws, which forbid sayg posive thgs about lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people classrooms, " Simmons told NPR. New York Cy is lnchg a digal billboard mpaign, supportg LGBTQ visibily that will be displayed five major markets Florida for eight weeks, to lure Floridians unhappy wh their state's "Don't Say Gay" law to the Big Apple, Adams announced.

INDIANA LAW DENOUNCED AS INVATN TO DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS

WLSINDIANAPOLIS (WLS) -- An effort to extend civil rights protectns to gay people Indiana is bill aimed at protectg gay people om discrimatn after a bill last year allowed those who oppose gay rights for relig reasons to whhold certa servic such as providg flowers or k for same sex law prompted an uproar that clud lls to boytt the state. Indiana rporate lears warned that the failure of the Republin-ntrolled Legislature to enact a law protectg gay, lbian and bisexual people om discrimatn uld rebound on bs, makg harr to rec talented employe and sell the state as an attractive place to Indy says the state lost around $60 ln due to the boytt followg the passage of the relig eedom law Associated Prs ntributed to this report. AdvertisementSKIP Scheer/The Indianapolis Star, via Associated PrsMarch 27, 2015An Indiana law that uld make easier for relig nservativ to refe service to gay upl touched off storms of prott on Friday om the worlds of arts, bs and llege athletics and opened an emotnal new bate the emergg mpaign for print.

Advot of equal rights for gays said the laws pose a threat of abettg discrimatn, pecially om bs owners who object to participatg same-sex weddgs. “The possible discrimatory effects are real, ” said Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. If that refal is challenged urt, a judge mt balance the relig burn wh the state’s “pellg tert” preventg discrimatn, acrdg to the Miller, who lobbied for Indiana’s new law as executive director of the group Advance Ameri, said uld help Christian bakers, florists and photographers avoid punishment for “refg to participate a homosexual marriage, ” protect Christian bs that refe “to allow a man to e the women’s rtroom, ” and sulate church that refe to allow their premis to be ed for same-sex Skipper/Associated PrsSome legal experts say the potential reach of the Indiana law, and many like , has been exaggerated by opponents.

INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS’ GENR INTY

“It’s not about discrimatg agast gays general or across the board, ” he said of the Indiana law. Bh said he believed that relig people “have a right” to opt out of providg servic for a gay weddg. Benff wrote a Twter uproar was pronounced the technology dtry, which has emerged as a champn of gay Stoppelman, the founr of Yelp, which publish onle reviews of bs, issued a warng to stat like Indiana that “ is unnscnable to image that Yelp would create, mata, or expand a signifint bs prence any state that enuraged discrimatn.

INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS OUT OF THE SENATE FOLLOWG FLOOR BATE, QUTNG

The legendary Broadway actrs Audra McDonald threatened to pull out of a g Indiana performance, before cidg stead to donate proceeds to gay rights groups. The actor Gee Takei lled himself “outraged” and suggted a boytt of the Tellem, a proment sports agent whose clients clu the basketball players Rsell Wtbrook, Anthony Davis and Jason Colls, the first openly gay N.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Right to Deny Service to Gays Stirs Broad Uproar. The so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill drew tense natnal scty om those who argue margaliz LGBTQ people.

INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'

Missouri lawmakers also rejected a more rtrictive versn of the “Don’t Say Gay” law. READ MORE: Indiana ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill amend, no longer requir parental nsent for name chang, pronouns.

Indiana Republin lawmakers abandoned efforts to strengthen protectns for lbian, gay and bi-sexual people on Tuday, optg not to vote on a measure signed to rtore the state's reputatn followg a natnal boytt over a relig objectns law last year. Travis Holdman, who had sponsored the gay rights bill, said on Tuday that he was "greatly disappoted" but realized there wasn't enough support for to pass.

He said efforts to pass a gay rights bill were ad for this legislative year. "The Indiana Chamber of Commerce warned that the failure to act leav bs the state at a disadvantage petg for talented backlash last year over the relig objectns law may have ntributed to the loss of a dozen nventns stg Indiana some $60 ln, the tourism group Vis Indy said a report last gay-rights group Freedom Indiana said was disappoted that Republins cid not to take a vote on the issue.

INDIANA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS' GENR INTY

Indianapolis, Indiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn – nmned the Indiana Senate for passg two anti-LGBTQ+ bills. The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The so-lled “Don't Say Gay” bill drew tense natnal scty om those who argue margaliz LGBTQ people.

INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY

They say would allow bs to ny servic to gay and lbian upl by claimg a relig pulsn. All of this is a sign, said proment gay rights activist Steve Elmendorf, that while gay rights was once a wedge issue employed by Republins, ’s now most potent when employed the other directn.

But he said the arguments that the laws discrimate agast gays are new; their origal tentn was solely to protect mory relig groups om ernment tsn. “You don’t have to rely on a RFRA bill to discrimate agast LGBT cizens” a state like Indiana where gays are not specifilly protected by law, Layck said. “What they need is a gay rights law, not the feat of RFRA, ” he add.

Indiana’s RFRA bill, Lupu argu, perms urts to ci favor of bs discrimatg agast gay or lbian ctomers by lg that the municipali do not have a “pellg tert” enforcg the lol laws. “There’s nsirable uncertaty about which si would w if there was a se volvg a gay weddg” a cy like Bloomgton, said Lupu.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

Mike Pence (R) quietly signed legislatn Thursday that uld legalize discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals. Sign up for her newsletter, Pipg Hot You Go10 Incredible Improvements For LGBT People Sce The First State Legalized Gay Marriage. Mike Pence has remaed firm  his support of tradnal marriage — even the face of rapidly-shiftg public opn on gay his State of the State addrs on Jan.

12, Pence ma clear he wasn't gog to viate om his relig nservative iology as a bate rag the Indiana General Assembly over whether to extend state civil rights protectns to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr his speech, the ernor said he believed "no one should be harassed or mistreated bee of who they are, who they love, or what they believe, " but he also said he wouldn't support any legislatn that would rce relig the qutn is: What will ernor do if legislatn providg LGBT protectns lands on his sk? Here's what we know about Pence's posns on gay rights issu over the years:Relign is a big fluencePence was raised an Irish Catholic fay Columb, Ind., where he and his three brothers served as altar boys. Homosexualy is typilly nsired a s both of those has remaed eply relig, often scribg himself as "a Christian, a nservative and a Republin, that orr.

Socially nservative activismIn the early 1990s, Pence was a board member for the Indiana Fay Instute, a nservative advocy group that has long opposed gay rights. "I will never waver my belief the importance of tradnal marriage to our society and our muny and the people of this great state, " he told the dience at IFI's 25th anniversary banquet opposed gay rights CongrsPence was a stnch opponent of gay rights durg his 12 years Congrs.