The Defining Moments of 2015

2015 was a year of unprecedented LGBT advances — the Supreme Court decision for marriage equality, for one — along with tragedies, such as a surge in murders of transgender women, and LGBT people being touched by the gun violence plaguing America. Among the year's other events: A famous former Olympic athlete came out as transgender, the movement against conversion therapy intensified, one major political party courted us more than ever, and the other demonized us more than ever. We won and lost elections, and some of the results surprised us — a heavily Catholic nation voted for marriage equality, and the fourth-largest U.S. city repealed a law that would have protected us from discrimination. But in good news and bad, we had an unheard-of level of visibility. Click through to see some of the key events of 2015.