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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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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.
The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
The Songs of Bilitis (/ b ɪ ˈ l iː t ɪ s /; French: Les Chansons de Bilitis) is a collection of erotic, essentially lesbian, poetry by Pierre Louÿs published in Paris in 1894. Since Louÿs claimed that he had translated the original poetry from Ancient Greek, this work is considered a pseudotranslation . [ 1 ]