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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.