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In 1795, Indiana as part of the Northwest Territory passed the "buggery" law, which punished male sodomy with death.In 1807, the Indiana Territory enacted a criminal code which included a sodomy provision, eliminating the gender-specifics (meaning it would be applicable to both heterosexual and homosexual conduct), reducing the penalty to one to five years' imprisonment, a fine of 100 to 500 ...
Mississippi was the only U.S. state to not have legal joint adoption rights for LGBT couples; the only other jurisdictions under U.S. sovereignty where this is the case are American Samoa and some Native American tribal nations. [75] Mississippi passed a state law in 2000 which explicitly prohibited same-sex couples from joint adoption.
In 1807, William Henry Harrison signed into law a comprehensive criminal code that included the first sodomy law for the Indiana Territory that eliminated the gender-specifics, reduced the penalty for a maximum of 1 to 5 years in prison, a fine of $100 to $500, up to 500 lashes on the back, and a permanent loss of civil rights.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld anti-gay marriage laws in four states, breaking ranks with other courts that have considered the issue and setting up the prospect of ...
By CHARLES WILSON INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A federal judge has struck down Indiana's ban on gay marriage, calling it unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard Young ruled Wednesday that the state ...
The law made it possible for businesses within the state of Indiana to discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community based on their personal religious beliefs. Pence did his best to label ...
Supporting the first framework, some incarcerated women identify as "gate gays," meaning that they are gay while inside the prison's gates, but return to a straight identity upon release. [9] However, the majority of women who have sex with women in prison engaged in same-sex sexual activity before incarceration. [ 8 ]
On November 26, 2012, Indiana Equality Action published a study researched by law students from the LGBT Project at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law titled "More Than Just a Couple: 614 Reasons Why Marriage Equality Matters in Indiana." [4] The study detailed the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage found in 614 laws in the ...