| LC control no. | n 88644476 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lyon, Phyllis |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Daughters of Bilitis |
| Other standard no. | 000000006752431X 16346167 Q15056022 |
| Located | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1924-11-10 |
| Death date | 2020-04-09 |
| Place of birth | Tulsa (Okla.) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Gay liberation movement Journalism |
| Profession or occupation | Gay activists Journalists |
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| Found in | nuc87-91008: Martin, D. Lesbian/woman, 1983 (hdg. on SdB rept.: Lyon, Phyllis; usage: Phyllis Lyon) LC data base, 6/17/88 (hdg.: Lyon, Phyllis) Martin, D. Lesbian/woman, 1991: CIP t.p. (Phyllis Lyon) data sheet (b. 11-10-24) Washington post WWW site, viewed April 16, 2020 (in obituary dated April 10, 2020: Phyllis Lyon, a gay rights activist who with her longtime partner was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California when it became legal to do so in 2008, died April 9 at her home in San Francisco. She was 95. Ms. Lyon was a journalist who met Del Martin while working at a magazine in Seattle. The couple moved to San Francisco in 1953 and co-founded with other lesbian couples the Daughters of Bilitis, a political and social organization for lesbians. They published a national monthly for lesbians and, in 1972, a book called "Lesbian/Woman." Ms. Lyon was born in Tulsa on Nov. 10, 1924) New York times, Apr. 13, 2020 (Phyllis Lyon; born Phyllis Ann Lyon on Nov. 10, 1924 in Tulsa, Okla., died Thursday [Apr. 9] in San Francisco, aged 95; in 1955 after moving to San Francisco, 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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