LGBTQ+ Group Denied Funds Restoration in Suit Against University

Funds an LGBTQ+ nonprofit had been receiving through Indiana State University to pay students to work for the group likely don’t implicate protected speech and don’t need to be immediately reinstated, a federal judge ruled.

Pride Center of Terre Haute Inc. sued university officials after being told the federal and other work-study funding would be discontinued given new US government guidance advising that programs allocating benefits based on protected characteristics tend to violate federal law, the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana said. Pride Center wasn’t entitled to a preliminary bar on the university’s move while the ...