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Four locals—some who married before the ban was lifted, some who wed afterward—on what their big days meant to them.

The first time in the parade’s history that a sitting mayor has served as grand marshal.

In some ways, the recent furor over Indiana’s RFRA echoed a heated discrimination debate from three decades ago, when the state was previously a battleground in the national culture wars.

“I’ve been a champion of this state for a long time,” says Peyton. “I could live anywhere I want, and I choose to live here at home.”

Finding the humor amidst a tremulous time for LGBT Hoosiers.

RFRA has sparked widespread outrage.

The Irish are fighting an uphill battle.

You can’t not have an opinion about Indiana Senate Bill 101.

The pop-minded country singer will perform here twice in three days.

The last time this transgender icon set foot on IU’s Bloomington campus, she was a “gender–non-conforming” freshman in leopard-print bellbottoms.

From a tap-dancing dynamo to a soul-man belter, from Lauren Spierer to Larry Legend, these are the year’s most-viewed newsmakers.

The best new fashion boutique, beer accessory, same-sex wedding cards, home decor, and more

Via @JayNilla: “At halftime, the Union leads the Confederacy 27-14.”

Says Gulley, “A decade ago, I created the little town of Harmony, Indiana, filled it with Quakers, and sent them a pastor named Sam Gardner to see what would happen. The series of novels had a good run, but I wanted to dabble in theology and pursued that genre of writing for a while. I missed Sam and the Harmony crowd, though, and decided to see what they had been up to in the intervening years.”

What began as one beckoning the other to meet him for a City Market lunch became an on-the-fly plan to marry—and the two became Indy’s first same-sex grooms.