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The Daughters of Bilitis (/ b ɪ ˈ l iː t ɪ s /), also called the DOB or the Daughters, was the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States. [1] The organization, formed in San Francisco in 1955, was initially conceived as a secret social club, an alternative to lesbian bars , which were subject to raids and ...
In 1955, Martin and Lyon and six other lesbian women formed the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first national lesbian organization in the United States. [3] [18] Lyon was the first editor of DOB's newsletter, The Ladder, beginning in 1956. Martin took over editorship of the newsletter from 1960 to 1962.
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement. Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2006. ISBN 978-0-78671-634-0. "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy. Cornell University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780801452789.
Billye Talmadge (December 7, 1929 – October 24, 2018), also known as Billie Tallmij, was a lesbian American activist and educator at the forefront of the burgeoning gay liberation movement in the 1950-60s as well as a founding member of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first organization established to fight explicitly for lesbian civil and political rights in the United States.
Ernestine Eckstein (April 23, 1941 – July 15, 1992) was an African-American woman who helped steer the United States Lesbian and Gay rights movement during the 1960s. She was a leader in the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB).
Pat Walker (February 18, 1939 - 1999) was a lesbian activist, poet, and businesswoman, best known for her involvement in the Daughters of Bilitis.She served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis and helped create the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was an American activist for LGBT equality.She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis [2] (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder [2] [3] from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay ...