- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion surveys in Indiana have pointed to a varied attitude towards LGBTQ+ individuals.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 10 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Indiana.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
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History
Same-sex marriage in Indiana is legal.
Right to change legal gender in Indiana is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Indiana is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Indiana is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Indiana is sexual orientation only.
LGBT discrimination in Indiana is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in Indiana is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Indiana is varies by region.
Additionally, HUD's 2012 Equal Access Rule prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for housing programs, shelters and other HUD-funded providers.
Same-sex adoption in Indiana is legal.
Second-parent adoption has been legalized via case law in two separate cases. Adoption of K.S.P., 804 N.E.2d 1253 (Ind.Ct. Appl. 2004) approved second-parent adoption by partners of biological parents. Adoption of M.M.G.C., 785 N.E.2d 267 (Ind. Ct. Appl. 2003) approved second-parent adoption by partners of adoptive parents.
Intersex infant surgery in Indiana is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Indiana is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
On February 10th, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth filed in court a memo relating to President Trump’s executive order from the previous month.
From then until March 18th, 2025, The U.S. military prohibited transgender individuals from enlisting and ceased providing or supporting gender transition procedures for service members.
Blood donations by MSMs in Indiana is legal.
Conversion therapy in Indiana is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Indiana is equal.