Ellen Page received a standing ovation after her emotional coming out speech at the Human Rights Campaign “Time to Thrive.”
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Alfredo Ormando set himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality.
The American Psychiatric Association officially declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin.
A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
The Austrian courts ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in 2019.