Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
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A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
Tokyo celebrated the country's first LGBTQ+ pride parade.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in Sweden.
A gunman opened fire and killed two people and injured 20 at a popular LGBTQ+ nightclub in Oslo, Norway.
Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin.
