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The first ever television show to depict a gay parent airs, though this does not directly deal with the current issue of adoption rights, it does deal with what at the time was a big deal and still is in the LGBT community, gay parenting.
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In 1973, Colorado is becomes the first state in the country to legally uphold a transgender parents right to retain custody of his child.
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The Washington supreme court issues their first federal ruling making it unlawful for judges to make a ruling on a case based off of the sexual orientation of those present in the trial.
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New York is the first state to say that they will not deny adoption applications do to the sexual orientation of the applicant.
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A gay couple in California becomes the first in the United States to successfully undergo joint adoption of a child.
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New Jersey becomes the first state to legalize same sex couple joint adoption.
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Marcus Ewert publishes the book "10,000 Dresses" the first known children's book to tell of a clearly transgender child character.
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Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star in the first major motion picture in America that focussed in on LGBT couples and their children (The first non-documentary film to discuss these issues).
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President Obama revised hospital Visitaion laws to make it so that patients may designate their own visitors, this is of course inclusive to same sex partners or spouces.
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The U.S. state department updated their passport application to say "mother or parent 1" and "father or parent 2" as opposed to the previous "mother" and "father" only.
