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1999—The World Congress of Families II convenes in Geneva, Switzerland

1999—Margaret MacGregor became the first woman to box and beat a man in an officially sanctioned bout.

1997—Bill Clinton addresses annual conference of the Human Rights Campaign (Nov 8)

1997—The First World Congress of Families I gathers in Prague, the Czech Republic

1995—The  Fourth World Conference on Women (United Nations) is held in Beijing, China.

1994—Colorado voters approve Amendment 2

1994—"International Year of the Family" reveals anti-family agenda taking root in the United Nations

1993—Homosexuals march on Washington, D.C.

1993—Bill Clinton issues executive order creating “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy

1991—The National Commission on Children releases its Final Report: Beyond Rhetoric, calling for a national policy to encourage two-married-parent families, including a new $1.000 per child tax credit

1990—Congress passes the American Disabilities Act which includes job protections for HIV and AIDS sufferers.

1989—Congressman William E. Dannemeyer places into the Congressional Record “What Homosexuals Do”

1989—Congressman Barney Frank caught with male prostitute operating out of the congressman’s Capitol Hill apartment

1988—Bush White House invites homosexuals to official signing of the Hate Crimes bill

1988—Allan Carlson's Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis appears; redefines family policy debate

1987—Homosexuals march on Washington, D.C.

1987—Congress passes first federal funds bill for AIDS, the Ryan White Act

1987—Center on The Family in America created; Persuasion at Work becomes The Family in America

1986—The "Bauer Report" on Strengthening Family is issued by The White House

1985—The third United Nations Conference on Women is held in Nairobi, Kenya.

1984—Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to be nominated to a presidential ticket.

1984—Berkeley, California is the first city in the United States to extend domestic partner benefits to homosexual city employees.

1983—Congressman Gerry Studds (D- MA) admits he is homosexual;  censured for having sex with a 17 year old male page

1982—The Gay Men’s Health Crisis is founded in New York City in response to the emerging AIDS epidemic.

1981—Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gay Men (PFLAG) is founded in Los Angeles

1981—AIDS

1981—Ronald Regan assumes Presidency of the United States; makes numerous pro-family appointments

1980—The second United Nations Conference on Women is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1980—Ronald Reagan's victory as President brings pro-life and pro-family leaders and themes into the White House

1979—The Radical Faeries are founded by Harry Hay in the Arizona desert.

1979—The first homosexual March on Washington, D.C.

1979—The 'Christian Right' takes form, with organization of The Moral Majority

1978—President Jimmy Carter convenes White House Conference on Families (named changed from White House Conference on the American Family), symbolic of intentionally confused definition of the family

1978—California’s Briggs Amendment banning homosexual teachers from public school is defeated by a wide margin.

1977—Sandy Lerner co-invents with her husband, the router, which links computer networks;  1984, she co-founds Cisco Systems.

1977—Rockford College Institute’s conference, THE FAMILY: AMERICA'S HOPE sparking the pro-family movement

1977—First National Women’s Conference (later became the National Organization of Women.

1977—Federal regulatory pressures on Christian churches and schools begins to mount

1977—Dade County, Florida repeals gay rights law.

1976—U.S. Supreme Court’s Danforth decision on abortion, repudiating all paternal rights in abortion decisions

1976—U.S. Congress greatly expands subsidy for non-parental commercial child care, marking the policy triumph of "socia parenting"

1976—Shere Hite’s The Hite Report on Female Sexuality is published.

1975—The first United Nations Conference on Women is held in Mexico City.

1975—The American Public Health Association votes to normalize homosexuality

1975—The American Psychological Association votes to normalize homosexuality

1974—The National Education Association passes a resolution to protect “sexual orientation” in the workplace.

1974—Phyllis Schlafly and the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

1974—Larry Flint publishes Hustler magazine.

1974—HUMAN LIFE REVIEW founded (pro-life publication)

1974—Congresswoman Bella Abzug introduces first homosexual rights bill in Congress

1974—Actress Marlo Thomas’s Free to Be ... You and Me is published for children. (celebrates gender "diversity")

1973—The National Gay Task Force (now the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) founded

1973—The American Psychiatric Association votes to normalize homosexuality

1973—The American Bar Association passes a resolution to encourage states to repeal all sodomy laws.

1973—Roe v. Wade.

1973—Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision overturns abortion laws in all fifty states, allowing Abortion on Demand

1973—Paris Adult Theaters v. Slaton.

1973—Miller v. California. (Reaffirms obscene material is NOT protected by the First Amendment).

1973—Lambda Legal Defense Association founded

1973—Gay Community News is founded in Boston.

1973—Andrea Dworkin's WOMAN HATING takes feminism to its logical conclusion, denying sexual differences and endorsing androgyny

1972—The report of the Presidential Commission on Population Growth and the American Future declares a kind of war on "the three child system"

1972—The hard-core movie Deep Throat is released. (Made for $25,000, the movie has grossed more than $100 million).

1972—New Title XX of Social Security Act’s creates a massive new day care entitlement

1972—Ms. magazine is founded.

1972—Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex is published.

1972—ABC television airs the first made- for- TV movie about homosexuality, That Certain Summer

1971—The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center is founded.

1971—The American Library Association creates an annual Gay Book Award.

1971—President Richard Nixon successfully vetoes Mondale-Brademas, a $2 billion federal day care "child development"  bill

1971—Gilbert Bartell’s Group Sex: A Scientist’s Eyewitness Report on the American Way is published.

1970—White House Conference on Children finds full time maternal care of children to be "unusual," endorses substitute care

1970—U.S. Congress enacts The Family Planning Services and Population Research Act (Title X)

1970—The University of Nebraska offers the first “gay studies” course in the United States.

1970—The first International Erotic Film Festival is held in San Francisco, California.

1970—The American Library Association’s Task Force on Gay Liberation created

1970—Our Bodies, Ourselves is published

1969—U.S. Congress scraps 'income splitting' for federal income tax; creates "the marriage penalty"

1969—The Stonewall Inn riot

1969—The NIMH Task Force on Homosexuality report

1969—The Gay Blade (now The Washington Blade) begins publishing

1969—The California Supreme Court rules that homosexual teachers cannot be barred from public school classrooms.

1968—The Metropolitan Community Church is founded in Los Angeles by Troy Perry.

1968—President Lyndon Johnson appoints the President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.

1968—Paul Ehrlich's POPULATION BOMB appears, fueling the new war against American fertility

1968—National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

1968—Dr. John Money performs the first sex-change operation in the United States at John Hopkins University

1967—The National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality commissioned

1967—The Advocate is founded and begins publishing

1966—William Masters and Virginia Johnson’s Human Sexual Response is published.

1966—The National Organization for Women is founded.

1966—Masters and Johnson’s HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE appears

1965—Nationwide push begins for 'No Fault' Divorce

1965—Griswold v. Connecticut establishes the “right to privacy” in the use of contraceptives.

1964—Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 undercuts the informal American "family wage" system, indirectly penalizing mother care at home

1964—The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) forms

1964—The Homosexual League of New York and the League for Sexual freedom demonstrate outside the Army Induction Center on Whitehall Street in New York City, the first known organized homosexual protest in the United States.

1963—Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1963—Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is published; her critique of the suburban housewife helps spawn the new feminism

1962—Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is published launching the modern American and global environmental movements.

1962—Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl is published.

1962—Abraham Maslow’s Toward a Psychology of Being is published.

1961—National Council of Churches' Conference, FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN FAMILY POLICY, criticizes marriage and endorses access to abortion, population control, and homosexuality

1961—Illinois becomes the first state to repeal its sodomy law.

1960—White House Conference on Children endorses "the understanding, loving care best provided by mother"

1960—The first Playboy Club is opened in Chicago, Illinois.

1960—The federal Food and Drug Administration approves Enovid, the first oral contraceptive.

1960—Jerrie Cobb became the first woman to pass the astronaut test to get into NASA’s space program.

1958—The California Supreme Court decides One, Inc. v. Olesen, allowing homosexual material to be sent through the mail.

1958—Charles Keating founds Citizens for Decent Literature in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1957—U.S. Marital Fertility rate reaches highest level in 25 years; average family size

1957—The American Civil Liberties Union adopts a national policy upholding the constitutionality of state sodomy laws and federal security clearance laws that deny employment to homosexuals.

1957—Roth v. United States.

1957—Evelyn Hooker’s Reports on sexuality

1956—The Church of ONE Brotherhood is founded in Los Angeles, the first recorded homosexual church in the nation.

1955—The Daughters of Bilitis founded

1953—President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450 excluding homosexuals and other “sexual perversions” from federal employment.

1953—Inaugural issue of PLAYBOY appears

1953—Hugh Hefner publishes Playboy.

1953—Alfred Kinsey’s Study on Women

1953—Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female is published.

1952—ONE magazine begins publishing

1952—Heavy publicity surrounds "sex change" operation of former GI George Jorgensen

1952—George Jorgensen undergoes a sex

1952—Congress enacts a law banning known foreign homosexuals from entering the United States.

1952—Anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar creates the Apgar score, to calculate health and viability of newborn infants.

1951—Talcott Parsons' THE SOCIAL SYSTEM gives a positive gloss to "the companionate family"

1951—Bette Nesmith Graham invents Liquid Paper to cover typos.

1950—The Mattachine Society founded

1948—The Tax Reform Act of 1948 raises the personal exemption and makes "income splitting" the law of the land, creating a powerful "profamily" tax code

1948—The Housing Act of 1948 helps spark the suburban boom; marriage rate stays high; divorce rate falling 

1948—Alfred Kinsey's SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE appears, suggesting high levels of sexual experimentation and 'deviance' in America

1948—Alfred Kinsey’s Study on Men

1948—Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male is published.

1947—Vice Versa, the first lesbian magazine in the United States, begins publishing.

1947—Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Farnham publish MODERN WOMAN: THE LOST SEX, , criticizing feminism as a mental disorder

1946—The first year that the word homosexual appears in any translation of the Bible.

1946—Homemaker Marion Donovan invents disposable diapers.

1946—Federal Council of Churches praises families with "at least three or four children"

1946—Designer Louis Reard creates the bikini in Paris.

1944—The 'Baby Boom' begins; marriage rate begins to climb

1943—The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League is created.

1942—The International Gay and Lesbian Archives established

1942—Homosexual historian Jim Kepner begins an archive collection culminating in the International Gay and Lesbian Archive opened to the public in 1979.

1942—Actress Hedy Lamarr invents a remote-controlled radio system undetectable by enemy forces during WWII.

1941—Wonder Woman becomes the first major comic book superhero.

1941—The Lanhan Act provides subsidies for Day Care Programs; 3,100 federal centers operating by 1944 as a wartime measure

1940—The Birth Control Federation of America becomes The Planned Parenthood Federation of America

1938—Austrian physicist Lise Meitner became the first person to split the atom.

1937—Margaret Fogarty Rudkin founds Pepperidge Farms baking company.

1936—WHO OWNS AMERICA?, edited by Herbert Agan, makes the case for restored farm and home ownership by American families

1936—Tampax introduces tampons to the commercial marketplace.

1936— Havelock Ellis’s, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, four-volume revision of the original ( see 1897 ) seven volumes was released.

1935—U.S. Fertility rate reaches historic low

1935—Sweden's Royal Commission on Population falls under the influence of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal; they begin crafting a "pro family" welfare state  involving the socialization of children

1935—Social Security Act begins transfer of old age support from families to government

1934—United States Customs prohibits Henry Miller’s book, Tropic of Cancer, from entering the country.

1934—Babe Didrikson became the first woman to pitch a full inning of major league baseball.

1933—Federal Government opens first government-subsidized nursery schools, under Works Progress Act

1931—The Federal Council of Churches endorses the use of birth control by married couples

1930—White House Conference on Children: ‘Childred of the New Day’

1930—The Motion Picture Code created.

1930—Motion Picture Production Code enacted in Hollywood barring all references to homosexuality.

1929—Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa is published.

1929—Bronislaw Malinowski’s The Sexual Life of Savages is published.

1929—Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

1928—Anthropologist Margaret Mead writes Coming of Age in Samoa.

1926—Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

1924—The Society for Human Rights, the founding of the first known homosexual group in the United States

1924—The New York Times first uses the word homosexual.

1924—Clarence Birdseye introduces frozen food to the commercial marketplace.

1922—Margaret Sanger creates the Birth Control Federation of America, declaring it "a battle of a republic against the machinations of the Roman Catholic Church

1921—Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license.

1920—Women receive the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment.

1920—The first brand of latex condoms were commercially marketed.

1919—Mary Pickford became the first woman to own a Hollywood studio.

1918—The U.S. Department of the Navy distributes condoms and birth control literature to sailors

1917—Ida R. Forbes invents the electric water heater.

1916—The United States military codifies homosexuality as a capital crime.

1916—Margaret Sanger’s Family Limitation is published.

1916—Margaret Sanger opens the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.

1915—United States Supreme Court rules that motion picture film is not protected by the First Amendment.

1915—The earliest known stag film, A Free Ride, is released.

1915—Anthony Comstock dies from pneumonia.

1914—Margaret Sanger meets Havelock Ellis in England.

1914—Margaret Sanger authors the pamphlet Family Planning before fleeing the country for violation of the Comstock Act.

1914—Luisa Capetillo was arrested in Cuba for wearing men’s trousers in public.

1914—Henry Ford’s "family wage" to heads-of-household

1914—Congress approves The Smith-Lever Act, designed to strengthen rural families.

1913—The State of Illinois Senate Vice Committee holds a series of hearings on the growing culture of dance among youth.

1913—Matilda Rabinowitz led the first autoworkers’ strike in the United States at the Detroit Studebaker plant.

1913—Abortion and family planning advocate Margaret Sanger publishes her own newsletter, The Woman Rebel.

1912—The National Education Association endorses sex education.

1912—The Girl Scouts organization was founded by Juliette Gordon Lowe.

1910—The White Slave Traffic Act, or the Mann Act, aimed at prostitution trafficking, becomes law.

1910—The Committee of Fifteen, a group of wealthy New York City businessmen, issue a Report on the Social Evil of 1910, addressing the rise in hedonism.

1909—The word “homosexuality” debuts in the Webster’s dictionary defined as a “morbid sexual passion for one of the same sex.”

1909—Sigmund Freud guest lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.  His first and only visit to the United States.

1909—"Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization." -White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children

1908—The American Home Economics Association organizes...

1908—Melitta Bentz invents the Melitta drip coffee filtration system in Germany.

1906—Father John Ryan's A LIVING WAGE argues for a worker's "right" to a living wage, in support of wife and children.

1905—Sigmund Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is published in Vienna, Austria.

1905—Addressing the National Congress of Mothers, President T. Roosevelt condemns the "one child" family system, calling it "the end of all hope."

1904—The first electric vibrator, The Chattanooga, was sold to doctors only for $200.  Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog offered a portable vibrator for $5.95 in 1918.

1904—Dr. Prince Morrow issues his medical tract, Social Disease and Marriage, about promiscuous men passing on venereal diseases to their innocent wives.

1903—Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.

1902—Maggie Walker became the first woman bank president in Richmond, Virginia.

1901—The Oxford English dictionary did not yet include the words “heterosexual” or “homosexual.”

1901—The electric washing machine is invented.

1901—Ida Craddock authors one of the first known “marriage” manuals titled The Wedding Night.

1897—Havelock Ellis’s first of seven volumes, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, is published.  ( see 1936 )

1896-1928—Havelock Ellis’, STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, undermining Judeo-Christian sexual standards

1891—Sex researcher Havelock Ellis marries Edith Lees, a lesbian, in 1891.

1878—The National Liberal League and the National Defense Association petition Congress to repeal the Comstock Act.

1874—The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is founded.

1873—The United States Congress passes the Comstock Act, prohibiting the mailing of obscene materials.

1873—The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice is established.

1872—Anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, a special agent to the United States Post Office, makes his first raid of two stationery stores in New York City alleged to be selling obscene literature