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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?:
High Femme Ma'am
Preferred Pronoun?:
Ma'am
Relationship Status:
widowed - involved, poly
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 5,674
Thanks: 37,098
Thanked 27,160 Times in 5,130 Posts
Rep Power: 21474855
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Phyllis Lyon, one of the founding mothers of the Lesbian Movement, passed away at the age of 95 on April 9. Lyon, along with Del Martin, co-founded The Daughters of Bilitis, which was the first national lesbian group in the United States, although it began as just a secretive group of eight friends. Lyon and Martin became publicly known as lesbian activists, and with The Daughters of Bilitis published The Ladder, a lesbian magazine. Lyon was also an author and journalist. In 2008, Lyon and Martin married, becoming the first legally recognized gay union in California. (They were married by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now the governor of California.)
Del Martin passed away August 27, 2008.
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-GeorgiaMa'am
It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling . . .
'Cause nothing compares, nothing compares 2 U
- Prince
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