| LC control no. | n 80050284 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Daughters of Bilitis |
| Variant(s) | D.O.B. (Organization) DOB (Organization) |
| See also | Founder: Lyon, Phyllis Founder: Martin, Del |
| Other standard no. | 130882337 Q1145872 |
| Beginning date | 1955 |
| Ending date | 1972 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Lesbian activists Gay liberation movement Lesbians' writings |
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| Found in | Ladder, Apr. 1963- GLBTQ Archive, viewed April 13, 2018 Daughters of Bilitis PDF (Founded in 1955 in San Francisco, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the first national lesbian political and social organization in the United States ; Individual chapters struggled on as autonomous organizations, but the national DOB folded, and the Ladder, now an independent women's liberation magazine, could not maintain sufficient financial support to continue. It ceased publication in 1972) <http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/daughters_bilitis_S.pdf> New York times, Apr. 13, 2020: in an obituary of Phyllis Lyon, page D7 (Phyllis Lyon, gay marriage trailblazer, is dead at 95; in 1955 after moving to San Francisco, Phyllis Lyon and her partner Del Martin joined three other lesbian couples to found the Daughters of Bilitis, one of the first lesbian political organizations in the United States; the group published a newsletter, "The Ladder," which Ms. Lyon edited from 1956 until the group disbanded [and the publication ceased] in the 1970s) |
| Associated language | eng |
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