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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.
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.
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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.
Bilitis can refer to: The Songs of Bilitis , 1894 collection of French erotic poetry attributed to the fictional Bilitis, a purported contemporary of Sappho Trois chansons de Bilitis (Three Songs of Bilitis), a song cycle by Claude Debussy composed in 1897, based on the poems
Beth Elliott (born 1950) is an American trans lesbian folk singer, activist, and writer. [1] In the early 1970s, Elliot was involved with the Daughters of Bilitis and the West Coast Lesbian Conference in California.
Cleo Bonner was an early member of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) and one of the few African American women associated with this organization in the early 1960s. [2] Bonner was also known as Cleo Glenn in order to protect her privacy. [3] She assumed the role of acting president of DOB in the fall of 1963. [4]