Topic: Phyllis Lyon
Phone: Annotation: This 2003 documentary, directed by JEB (Joan E. Biren), chronicles the public and private lives of pioneering activist lesbian...
0 View Larger Image . -- Because it doesn't necessarily goeth before a fall, and thank you Gay Establishment: Proclamation-toting Mark Leno...
The Stonewall Riots in 1969 were not the beginning of the gay rights movement as many have thought. This unique organization was founded in San Francisco by eight women to provide an alternative to the bar scene which was considered illegal and ...
According to Wikipaedia (Internet encyclopedia) California has the highest percentage (5.2%) of homosexual persons (1,338,164) living in one state in the U.S., and San Francisco has the highest percentage (15.4%) of gays and lesbians (94,234) living ...
These days Del Martin is known as half of the first lesbian couple married in San Francisco in 2004 and in 2008. In 1955, with Phyllis and several other women, Del Martin formed Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first national organization for ...
Octogenarians Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon took the first vows in San Francisco's ornate City Hall in a ceremony presided over by Mayor Gavin Newsom, who said California was leading a trend that would sweep the nation. Del Martin, left, and ...
Del Martin was born as Dorothy Taliaferro in 1921 in San Francisco. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon met in 1950 in Seattle, where they both worked for the same publication. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin became active in a group called San ...