How this long-running LGBT Pride festival flourished in small-town Indiana [View all]

SPENCER – Some 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis, down a stretch of highway filled with trucks, and then along a winding two-lane country road, tiny Spencer looks almost exactly like what you would expect from a Midwestern small town.

Almost.

A quarter buys you two hours on the downtown parking meters. Railroad tracks cut through the town square. At the heart of Spencer, a historic county courthouse with a copper dome pays homage to war heroes with memorials around the immaculate lawn.

And at one end of downtown, two towering rainbow flags stand outside a storefront.

This is the new home of Spencer Pride, a local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender nonprofit organization.

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