Only in America. A student in Oklahoma is suing state officials because they won’t let him get a personalised car numberplate that reads “IM GAY”.

Pinknews reports that Keith Kimmel, of the Oklahoma City Community College, is claiming that his First Amendment rights are being violated and if a judge rules against him, he will appeal.

According to regulations by the Oklahoma Tax Commission numbers or words which “may be offensive to the general population” are banned from numberplates. But according to Kimmel, he is proud to be gay and wants to tell everyone.

“I want to tell people who I am and what I am. I’m proud of it. I’m openly gay. I’m not hiding,” he told The Oklahoman. “What better way to tell everybody than to put it on the back of a car?”

Kimmel also says that rather hypocritically, the Tax Commission allows numberplates like “STR8FAN” and “STR8SXI”.

“They defended using ‘straight sexy’ … They didn’t think that one was inappropriate but yet ‘I’m gay’ is. I think it’s kind of a double standard.”

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