This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1995.
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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]
December
- 30 – San Francisco outlaws discrimination based on gender identity.[11]
- 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