Greece legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, becoming the first Orthodox Christian Country to do so.
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A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
President Barack Obama officially declared his support of same-sex marriage.
Tokyo celebrated the country's first LGBTQ+ pride parade.
The US military policy "don't ask, don't tell" came to an end.
The UK's repealed anti-gay amendment, Section 28, came to a complete end in the UK.
