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Wedding of Martin and Lyon, 2008 Martin and Lyon after their first wedding, 2004. Dorothy Louise Taliaferro "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) [1] and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) [2] [3] were an American lesbian couple based in San Francisco who were known as feminist and gay-rights activists.
The initial membership included thirty-six women, out of the conference attendance of two hundred, with Del Martin as a contact for the organization. [3] Eventually the Lesbian Mothers Union was established in both San Francisco and Oakland, California , totaling more than a hundred members locally by 1973.
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Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had joined the National Organization for Women and encouraged readers of The Ladder to do the same. Younger members who were sparked by more confrontational methods of protest, did not agree with some of the older members' ideas.
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Lesbian/Woman (1972; second edition 1991) is a work by the feminist and gay rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, in which the authors discuss what it means to be a lesbian. The book was influential and is considered a foundational text of lesbian feminism .