How toxic masculinity almost stopped Father’s Day from happening
Not all dads were onboard with the idea of gifts and breakfast in bed.
The first official event to explicitly celebrate fatherhood was on July 5, 1908, in a church in a West Virginia town still reeling over a mining disaster that cost the lives of 362 men, many of whom where fathers. The church delivered a Sunday sermon in memory of the fathers who perished that day, and some recognize that as the first Father’s Day.