THE NEW MILLENNIUM
As the first decade of our new millennium ends, LGBT people look ahead to the future. Forty years of progress have wrought significant change—what will the next 40 years bring?
2005
  • Same-sex marriage is legalized in Spain and Canada (along with adoption)
  • Brokeback Mountain is released in theaters; it would garner the most nominations of any movie for the year's Academy Awards
  • New Zealand solicitor general rule that the country's Human Rights Act outlaws discrimination on the basis of gender identity
  • Viacom launches Logo, a cable channel aimed at the LGBT community
  • Two gay male teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, are executed in Iran
  • South Africa's supreme court rules that it is unconstitutional to ban gay marriages, legalizing same-sex marriage
  • André Boisclair is chosen leader of the Parti Québécois, becoming the first openly gay man elected as the leader of a major political party in North America
  • U.K. introduces civil partnerships with rights all but equal to marriage
2006
  • Soulforce conducts its inaugural Equality Ride
  • Rosie O'Donnell joins The View
  • Washington State adds sexual orientation to its existing antidiscrimination laws
  • More than 100 gay and lesbian families and their children attend the annual Egg Roll on the grounds of the White House, earning headlines
  • Actors Neil Patrick Harris and T.R. Knight come out as gay men
  • The first gay pride march in Moscow ends with violence
  • The Federal Marriage Amendment fails to pass in the Senate
  • Former NBA player John Amaechi comes out of the closet
  • New Jersey governor Jon Corzine signs the state's civil unions bill
2007


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