1960
Penguin Books wins a case to publish an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the UK.
1960
Enovid, previously used to treat menstrual disorders, is approved for use as an oral contraceptive.
1960
The first issue of Transvestia, a magazine for heterosexual crossdressers, is published.
1961
Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize same-sex relationship when it repeals its sodomy laws.
1962
First publication of EROS magazine by Ralph Ginzburg. Ginzburg was indicted and, in 1972 after a long trial and series of appeals, imprisoned for violating obscenity laws.
1963
Formation of John Money's gender-identity clinic at John Hopkins University.
1963
Frank Caprio publishes The Sexually Adequate Woman.
1963
The Sexual Freedom League is founded.
1964
The Reproductive Biology Research Foundation is founded by William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
1964
Mary Calderone founds the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) which promotes and disseminates information about sexual health.
1964
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on a number of grounds and provides legislation against sexual discrimination.
1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson provides federal funding to support birth control clinics.
1964
Paul Gebhard and John Gagnon publish 'Male sex offenders against very young children' in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
1964
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Sex Education' in News and Views of NABT.
1965
George Klippert is the last person in Canada to be charged and imprisoned for homosexuality after admitting to consensual homosexual relations with other men. He is released on 21 July 1971, two years after homosexuality is decriminalised in Canada.
1965
Paul Gebhard publishes Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types.
1965
In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court gives married couples the right to use birth control.
1965
Paul Gebhard publishes chapter 'Situational factors affecting human sexual behavior' in Sex and Behavior.
1966
The Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic opens at John Hopkins University.
1966
Robert Wilson publishes Feminine Forever, advocating for the use of hormone treatments to counter the menopause.
1966
William Masters and Virginia Johnson publish Human Sexual Response, based on laboratory observation of male and female orgasms.
1966
Steven Marcus publishes The Other Victorians, a book about sexual subcultures in 19th century Britain.
1966
Harry Benjamin publishes The Transsexual Phenomenon.
1966
The National Organization for Women is founded.
1966
Paul Gebhard presents 'Homosexual socialization' at the Proceedings of the World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid.
1966
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Factors in marital orgasm' in the Journal of Social Issues.
1967
John Gagnon publishes Sexual Deviance: A Reader.
1967
In Love v. Virginia, the US Supreme Court strikes down state laws banning interracial marriage.
1967
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decriminalizes homosexuality in England and Wales.
1967
The Abortion Act 1967 broadens legal grounds for abortion within the UK.
1967
The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists is founded.
1967
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Normal and criminal sexual behavior at older ages' in Beitrage zur Sexualforschung.
1968
The US Food and Drug Administration approves early IUDs.
1968
The state of Louisiana bars sex education.
1968
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Projects since the Kinsey Reports' in Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality.
1968
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Normal and criminal sexual behavior at older ages' in Beitrage zur Sexualforchung.
1969
The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1968-1969 decriminalizes homosexual acts and legalizes abortions for the well-being of the mother in Canada.
1969
Robert Rayford passes away in what is now thought to be the first AIDS-related death in Northern America.
1969
Members of the New York LGBT community undergo a series of riots and protests in reaction to a police raid on the popular Stonewall Inn. This event, now referred to as Stonewall, is a watershed in American LGBT history and is a catalyst for the creation of the modern LGBT movement around the world.
1969
David Reuben publishes Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), a bestselling sex manual.
1969
John Money publishes Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment.
1969
The Sandstone Retreat, a radical sexual community, is founded.
1969
The foundation of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws.
1969
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Why Chant d'Amour was banned' in Censorship Today.
1969
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Misconceptions about female prostitutes' in Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality.
1969
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Fetishism and sadomasochism' in Science and Psychoanalysis.
1970
First Gay Pride marches take place in the US.
1970
Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch, in which she argues that traditional family structures suppress women sexually.
1970
Kate Millett publishes Sexual Politics, in which she investigates the role of the patriarchy in sexual relationships.
1970
Anne Koedt publishes 'The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm', an essay on female sexuality.
1970
William Masters and Virginia Johnson publish Human Sexual Inadequacy.
1970
The Institute for Sex Research establishes a dedicated Information Services Department to begin recording reference and referral information.
1970
The White House Commission on Pornography and Obscenity reports that sexually explicit material is not harmful and recommends that all obscenity laws except those protecting minors be abolished. The report is suppressed.
1970
Maryland becomes the first state to mandate sex education at all levels in public schools.
1971
Judith Jarvis Thomson publishes the moral philosophy paper, 'A Defense of Abortion', arguing that the right to life should be granted to a fetus as well as the mother.
1971
The Coalition of American Divorce Reform Elements is founded by Richard Doyle. It is one of the first men's rights organisations in the United States.
1971
Paul Gebhard presents 'The exposure factor. The V.D. Crisis' at the Proceedings of the International Venereal Disease Symposium in St. Louis, Missouri.
1972
The Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club is founded to support openly gay political candidates.
1972
Over 2,000 men and women attended the first gay pride parade held in London on 1 July.
1972
Alex Comfort publishes The Joy of Sex, a bestselling sex manual.
1972
In Baird v. Eisenstadt, the Supreme Court gives unmarried people the same right to birth control as married couples.
1972
Larry Townsend publishes The Leatherman's Handbook, a popular work which publicizes gay sado-masochism.
1972
John Money publishes Man and Woman, Boy and Girl.
1972
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon publish Lesbian/Woman.
1972
Nena and George O'Neill publish Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples, a bestselling book about new forms of egalitarian marriage and relationships.
1972
The Supreme Court extends the 'right to privacy' for contraceptive use to unmarried people.
1973
Seymour Fisher publishes The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy.
1973
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon publish Lesbian Love and Liberation.
1973
The San Francisco Sex Information organisation is founded.
1973
John Gagnon publishes Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality.
1973
In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court establishes the constitutional right for women to have an abortion.
1973
The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list as a mental disorder on the 15 December.
1973
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is founded to provide legal advice and support for homosexual men and women.
1973
Catholics for a Free Choice advocacy group is founded.
1973
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Sex differences in sexual response' in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
1974
The Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) is founded.
1974
On the 5 January four women, Pat Murphy, Adrienne Potts, Sue Wells and Heather Beyer are arrested at the Brunswick Tavern in Toronto for singing a song called "I Enjoy Being a Dyke." This event is seen as a watersheet in LGBTQ activism in Canada because it made the community more aware of police harassment and discrimination.
1974
Betty Dodson publishes Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Self Love.
1974
William Masters and Virginia Johnson publish The Pleasure Bond.
1974
Helen Kaplan publishes New Sex Therapy, exploring new approaches and techniques in psychotherapy and behavioural therapy and applying them to sex therapy.
1975
Benjamin Graber and Georgia Kline-Graber publish Woman's Orgasm: A Guide to Sexual Satisfaction.
1975
Homosexual activity is decriminalized in Southern Australia, the first Australian state to do so.
1975
Susan Brownmiller publishes Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.
1975
Psychologist Elaine Hatfield receives a grant of $84,000 from the National Science Foundation to study passionate love, which provokes an attack from Senator William Proxmire.
1975
James C. Burt publishes his book, Surgery of Love, in which he describes women as structurally inadequate for intercourse, and promotes his highly harmful form of "love surgery".
1975
Paul Gebhard publishes 'Preparation for a course on human sexuality' in Teaching of Psychology.
1976
Michel Foucault publishes the first of four volumes of The History of Sexuality, a study of Western sexuality.
1976
Shere Hite publishes The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, based on responses to sexual surveys .
1976
The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is founded in San Francisco.
1976
The organization Women Against Pornography is founded.
1976
The Society for the Second Self (Tri-Ess), a support group for heterosexual crossdressers, is founded.
1976
The Hyde Amendment is passed through U.S. Congress and restricts the use of federal medicaid funds to pay for abortions.
1977
Anthony Kosnik publishes Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought.
1977
John Gagnon publishes Human Sexualities.
1977
The birth of the world's first baby to be conceived by IVF (in vitro fertilisation) is recorded in Oldham General Hospital, Greater Manchester, England.
1977
William Masters, Virginia Johnson, and Robert Kolodny publish Ethical Issues in Sex Therapy and Research.
1977
In the case Carey v. Population Services, the Supreme Court overturns laws which prohibit the sale of contraceptives by non-pharmacists, the sale of contraceptives to minors, and advertising for contraceptives.
1977
Paul Gebhard publishes 'The acquisition of basic sex information' in the Journal of Sex Research.
1978
The American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine and Science is founded.
1978
Gilbert Baker designs the rainbow flag in San Francisco. It has now become the symbol for LGBT movements and gay pride around the world.
1978
Paul Gebhard publishes Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women.
1979
The foundation of the Lyon-Martin Health Services, providing healthcare to lesbian women.
1979
The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association is formed. It is later renamed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
1979
William Masters and Virginia Johnson publish Homosexuality in Perspective.
1979
A national analysis by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare finds that less than 10% of American students receive sex education in high school.
1979
Paul Gebhard and Alan B. Johnson publish 'The Kinsey Data: Marginal tabulations of the 1938-1963 interviews conducted by The Institute for Sex Research'.
1980
The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 decriminalizes homosexuality in Scotland.
1980
The first Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People is published, authored by Dr Leah Schaefer.
1981
The Institute for Sex Research is renamed to the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Alfred Kinsey's death.
1981
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Northern Ireland's criminalization of homsexuality is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
1981
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the first cases of a severe immune deficiency among gay men.
1981
The U.S. Congress passes the Adolescent Family Life Act which funds abstinence-only education programs.
1981
Gay Men's Health Crisis group formed to provide counseling and promote information on the AIDS crisis.
1981
Shere Hite publishes The Hite Report on Male Sexuality, based on responses to sexual surveys.
1981
Bernard Starr and Marcella Weiner publish The Starr-Weiner Report on Sex and Sexuality in the Mature Years.
1982
U.S. court recognize Unborn Children for the first time.
1982
June Reinisch is appointed as director of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, changing the name of the institute to The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
1982
A report based on homosexual men in Southern California identifies that the immune deficiency can be transmitted sexually, initially naming the disease Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). Later in the same year it is renamed AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).
1982
June Reinisch and Stephanie Sanders publish 'Early barbiturate exposure: The brain, sexually dimorphic behavior and learning' in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review.
1983
AIDS is reported among female partners of men with the disease, showing that it can be passed via heterosexual sex.
1983
The World Health Organisation holds its first meeting to discuss AIDS.
1948
The first issue of The Kinsey Report, June Reinisch's syndicated newspaper column that answers the public's questions about sex, is published.
1984
Edward Brecher publishes Love, Sex, and Aging, based on a survey of people in the United States between the ages of 50 and 93 on sexuality in older age.
1985
Kenneth Zeller is the victim of a homophobic hate crime and is murdered by five young men in Toronto's High Park. His death garners national media coverage and prompts the Toronto District School Board to implement one of Canada's first programs to tackle homophobia and violence.
1985
The Sexual Offences Act 1985 increases the maximum sentence in the UK for attempted rape from seven years to life imprisonment and creates two new offences related to prostitution.
1986
Alex Comfort publishes More Joy of Sex, the sequel to his popular sex manual.
1986
The American Board of Sexology is founded.
1986
In the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court upholds laws banning sodomy in the state of Georgia.
1986
William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Robert Kolodny publish Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving.
1986
June Reinisch and Stephanie Sanders publish 'A test of sex differences in aggressive response to hypothetical conflict situations' in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
1987
The International Foundation for Gender Education, a non-profit transgender advocacy group, is founded.
1987
ACT UP group is formed to end the AIDS pandemic and works to improve the lives of people with AIDS by providing greater access to new drugs and treatments.
1987
June Reinisch's Masculinity/Femininity is published by Oxford University Press, serving as the inaugural volume in The Kinsey Institute Series.
1987
Stephanie Sanders publishes 'The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction' in American Psychological Association Division 44 Newsletter.
1988
John Money publishes Gay, Straight and In-Between.
1988
June Reinisch, Stephanie Sanders and Mary Ziemba-Davis publish 'The study of sexual behavior in relation to the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus: caveats and recommendations' in The American Psychologist.
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1988
The Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act is passed, placing stringent record-keeping requirements on producers of explicit materials.
1988
June Reinisch publishes 'Kinsey sex surveys' in Science.
1990
June Reinisch's The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to be Sexually Literate is published.
1990
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction holds its first art exhibit, Selections from the Collections of The Kinsey Institute.
1990
June Reinisch, Craig Hill, Stephanie Sanders and Mary Ziemba-Davis publish 'Sexual behaviors among heterosexual college students' in Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling.
1990
John Bancroft and June Reinisch publish Adolescence and Puberty.
1991
The first U.S. television commercial for condoms airs.
1991
June Reinisch, Mary Ziemba-Davis and Stephanie Sanders publish 'Hormonal contributions to sexually dimorphic behavioral development in humans' in Psychoneuroendocrinology.
1991
June Reinisch, Leonard Rosenblum, Donald Rubin and M. Fini Schulsinger publish 'Sex differences in behavioral milestones during the first year of life' in the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality.
1991
June Reinisch, Craig Hill, Mary Ziemba-Davis and Stephanie Sanders publish 'Perceptions about sexual behavior: Findings from a national sex knowledge survey - United States, 1989' in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
1992
The government of Paul Keating abolishes the ban on gay men and lesbian women serving in the Australian military.
1992
In the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court upholds Pennsylvania legislation placing restrictions on the right to have an abortion.
1992
June Reinisch, Stephanie Sanders, Craig Hill and Mary Ziemba-Davis publish 'High-risk sexual behavior among heterosexual undergraduates at a Midwestern university' in Family Planning Perspectives.
1992
June Reinisch and Stephanie Sanders publish 'Effects of prenatal exposure to Diethylstilbestrol (DES) on hemispheric laterality and spatial ability in human males' in Hormones and Behavior.
1993
TAMPEP (European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers) is founded, opening its headquarters in Amsterdam. Initially, TAMEP operated in Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands.
1993
June Reinisch retires as director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Stephanie Sanders steps into an interim directorship.
1994
The National Health and Social Life Survey is released, surveying more than 3,000 Americans on their sexual practices.
1994
William Masters, Virginia Johnson, and Robert Kolodny publish Heterosexuality.
1994
John Gagnon publishes Sex in America, and The Social Organization of Sexuality.
1995
John Bancroft becomes director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, and begins operating a clinic for sexual health and menstrual problems.
1995
The book Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, by Marjorie Garber is published. This book argued bisexuality to be natural, but repressed by socio-cultural factors.
1995
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction launches KICAT, its online public access catalogue.
1995
Stephanie Sanders, Erik Lykke Mortensen and Donald Rubin publish 'Prenatal exposure to phenobarbital and intelligence deficits in adult human males' in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
1995
John Bancroft, and Dilys Rennie publish 'Perimenstrual depression: its relationship to pain, bleeding and previous history of depression' in Psychosomatic Medicine.
1997
Researching Sexual Behavior: Methodological Issues by John Bancroft is published by Indiana University Press.
1997
The National Conference of Sex Workers is held in India, leading to the establishment of The National Network of Sex Workers. The NNSW is a national network of sex worker- led organisations and allies committed to promoting the Rights of Sex Workers in India.
1999
The age of sexual consent in Spain is changed from twelve to thirteen.
1999
The website Kinsey Confidential (originally called Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service for Students) was started to provide research-based information regarding sexuality to college-aged adults.
1999
Levonorgestrel-only emergency contraceptives are approved for use in the U.S. under the brand name Plan B.
1999
The oral PDE5 inhibitor, used to treat erectile dysfunction, is introduced by Pfizer Inc.