17 – The
Alaska Supreme Court dismisses Brause v. Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by a same-sex couple seeking the rights reserved to married couples despite a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The Court rules that the couples' claim of discrimination had not
ripened under state law.[9]
30 –
Football hooligans, clerics,
ultranationalist youth and
far right skinheads storm the first Pride march in
Belgrade (at the time
Yugoslavia, now
Serbia), attacking and seriously injuring several participants and stopping the event from taking place. The police were too poorly equipped to suppress riots or protect the Pride marchers.
July
17 - US state of
Rhode Island bans gender identity discrimination in the private sector.[12]
1 – In Germany, the Civil Union Bill goes into effect.
September
5 – The first couples sign the
Greater London Authority's partnership register. The partnership register is a way of recognising the partnership status of couples, both same-sex and opposite-sex.
November
13 – In the U.S., the
city council of
Fort Wayne, Indiana, passes an ordinance which adds sexual orientation to its municipal anti-discrimination law.