List of years in LGBT rights (table)
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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1995.

Events

January

  • 1 – Sweden begins registering same-sex domestic partners. Same-sex couples receive most of the rights of mixed-sex marriages but do not receive the right to a church wedding, the right to adopt children or the right to artificial insemination.[2]
  • 19 – The District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules in Dean v. District of Columbia that the district's human rights ordinance barring discrimination based on sexual orientation does not guarantee a right to same-sex marriage.[3]

February

  • 2 – A judge in Tennessee rules that the state's sodomy law violates the state constitution.[4]
  • 17 – The Canadian province of British Columbia announces new regulations allowing gay and lesbian people to adopt children.[5]

March

May

June

August

October

December

  • 30 – San Francisco outlaws discrimination based on gender identity.[11]

Deaths

  • March 9 – Scott Amedure, 32, talk show murder victim
  • November 17 – James Woods III, 32, author of The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America
  • November 20 – Steven Powsner, 40, former president of the New York City Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center

References

  1. Current Issues
  2. "A Swede deal for couples". The Advocate. July 12, 1994. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  3. Dean v. District of Columbia, 92 CV 737 (District of Columbia Court of Appeals January 19, 1995).
  4. "Another one bites the dust". The Advocate. March 7, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  5. "OK in B.C." The Advocate. April 4, 1995. p. 10.
  6. Schmitt, Eric (March 31, 1995). "Judge Overturns Pentagon Policy on Homosexuals". The New York Times. p. A24. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  7. "Reversal in Florida". The Advocate. June 27, 1995. p. 14. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  8. "Rights bill OK'd". The Advocate. July 25, 1995. p. 14. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  9. Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, 515 US 557 (Supreme Court of the United States June 19, 1995).
  10. New York Times: Todd S. Purdum, "Clinton Ends Ban on Security Clearance for Gay Workers," August 4, 1995, accessed March 6, 2012
  11. "Around the nation". The Advocate. February 7, 1995. p. 20. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
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