{"id":144,"date":"2017-10-26T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-10-29T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T05:29:08","slug":"hoosiers-say-no-hate-in-my-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/hoosiers-say-no-hate-in-my-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoosiers Say &#8220;No Hate in My State!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published April 10, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>GLNers travel to Indianapolis&nbsp;to participate<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>in pro-LGBT march on the NCAA &#8220;Final Four&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click on the picture below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GayLiberationNet\/videos\/667618743344170\/\">here<\/a> to watch a short film<br \/>\nof the protest:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=667618743344170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/d7236656-d9d6-4c51-9835-4ebca874ce1f.jpg\" alt=\"Short film of protest\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"244\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8230;and here are pictures of the protest:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/592e89a4-effe-4950-b063-6ad9159d4fde.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd gathers\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"103\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Crowd gathers at Indy&#8217;s Soldiers&#8217; and Sailors&#8217; Monument.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/688fe423-63e8-4d18-b874-a6a3df48d1ae.jpg\" alt=\"= Indiana\" width=\"220\" align=\"none\" height=\"302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/f346cdbe-b854-47c2-b0b8-7e0370e36fa9.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Let Love Rule\" width=\"204\" align=\"none\" height=\"302\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/a66db252-402a-4a42-ad3c-7c4e72a76456.jpg\" alt=\"No Hate in Our State\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"260\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/fff6f9e6-7234-4e99-8761-39bddc28d97b.jpg\" alt=\"On the march\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>March to the NCAA &#8220;Final 4&#8221; begins&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/c0796da9-37dc-41fe-bd79-70a9b9edcf3d.jpg\" alt=\"Front of the march\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"390\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/e15b641c-ea4b-4dac-84ec-df28a23712d5.jpg\" alt=\"Indy Welcomes All People\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"278\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/6b851a4e-520d-4a5f-aa51-43ceb0e94ff5.jpg\" alt=\"In front of the NCAA\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"234\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Marching past the stadium &#8211; many gathering for the games applauded our march. There were few overtly&nbsp;negative reactions aside from two clowns who tried to disrupt our rally, but were rapidly escorted away.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/e99ba7cf-139e-48ee-9f21-7b1d64c204c9.jpg\" alt=\"GLN's Marc Lawrence\" width=\"225\" align=\"none\" height=\"350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/b9686592-7f2e-458d-86bc-8304e43d3417.jpg\" alt=\"Bigotry masked as 'religion'...\" width=\"196\" align=\"none\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>GLNer Marc Lawrence (left) and Michael Obouza (left side of right photo) were among those who traveled from Chicago to join the march.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/27a07ff4-2166-439a-a749-ddc35eeeabb2.jpg\" alt=\"Fix the 'Fix'\" width=\"104\" align=\"none\" height=\"204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/3b7bc286-6aa1-4fa0-ac01-38826501ca3a.jpg\" alt=\"Demo organizers\" width=\"330\" align=\"none\" height=\"204\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Fix the &#8216;Fix'&#8221; refers to the amendment to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act &nbsp;that Governor Mike Pence hurriedly enacted after he faced a firestorm of protest over the original law. &nbsp;As noted by activists in the short film above, the &#8220;Fix&#8221; is totally inadequate.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the right, principal march organizer Dominic Dorsey (second from right) is joined by some of his fellow organizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published April 10, 2015 GLNers travel to Indianapolis&nbsp;to participate in pro-LGBT march on the NCAA &#8220;Final Four&#8221; Click on the picture below or here to watch a short film <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/hoosiers-say-no-hate-in-my-state\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,107,55],"tags":[116,115,41,114,69,36],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-intersectionality","category-lgbt-rights","tag-equal-access-to-public-accommodations","tag-indiana","tag-lgbtq-rights","tag-mike-pence","tag-religious-right","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}