Editing Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

{{short description|American feminists and gay-rights activists}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}
[[Image:Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Wedding]] of Martin and Lyon, 2008]]
[[File:Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Martin and Lyon after their first wedding, in 2004]]
'''Dorothy Louise Taliaferro''' "'''Del'''" '''Martin''' (May 5, 1921 &ndash; August 27, 2008)<ref name="MARTINDEATH">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/27/state/n113351D32.DTL|title=Del Martin: 1921-2008: Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87|date=August 28, 2008|last=Gordon|first=Rachel|work=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> and '''Phyllis Ann Lyon''' (November 10, 1924 &ndash; April 9, 2020)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sfist.com/2020/04/09/sf-lesbian-pioneer-phyllis-lyon-dies-at-age-95/|title=SF Lesbian Pioneer Phyllis Lyon dies at age 95|last=Barmann|first=Jay|work=SFist|date=April 9, 2020|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=April 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417080725/https://sfist.com/2020/04/09/sf-lesbian-pioneer-phyllis-lyon-dies-at-age-95/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="nyt-10apr2020">{{cite news |last1=Carmel |first1=Julia |title=Phyllis Lyon, Lifelong Lesbian Activist, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/obituaries/phyllis-lyon-dead.html |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> were an American [[lesbian]] couple based in San Francisco who were known as [[feminist]] and [[gay-rights]] [[activist]]s.<ref name="MARTINDEATH"/>

Martin and Lyon met in 1950, became lovers in 1952, and moved in together on [[Valentine's Day]] 1953 in an apartment on [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro Street]] in [[San Francisco]]. They had been together for three years when they cofounded the [[Daughters of Bilitis]] (DOB) in San Francisco in 1955. This became the first social and political organization for lesbians in the United States and soon had a national reach. They both acted as president and until 1963 successively as editor of [[The Ladder (magazine)|''The Ladder'']] magazine, which they also founded. They were involved in the DOB until they joined the [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW), the first known lesbian couple to do so.

Both women worked to form the [[Council on Religion and the Homosexual]] (CRH) at [[Glide Memorial Church|Glide Memorial Methodist Church]] in northern California to persuade ministers to accept homosexuals into churches. The couple used their influence to decriminalize homosexuality in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They became politically active in San Francisco's first gay political organization, the [[Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club|Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club]]. This group influenced then-mayor [[Dianne Feinstein]] to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays and lesbians. Both women remained politically active, later serving in the [[White House Conference on Aging]] in 1995.

They were married on February 12, 2004, in the first [[San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings|same-sex wedding to take place in San Francisco]] after Mayor [[Gavin Newsom]] ordered the city clerk to begin providing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexandra |first=Rae |date=May 17, 2024 |title=The San Francisco Couple Whose Lifelong Love Changed America |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955066/del-martin-phyllis-lyon-lesbian-icons-lgbt-daughters-of-bilitis |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628150918/https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955066/del-martin-phyllis-lyon-lesbian-icons-lgbt-daughters-of-bilitis |archive-date=June 28, 2024 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=www.kqed.org |language=en}}</ref> That marriage was voided by the California Supreme Court on August 12, 2004.<ref name="WEDDING"/>

After the [[California Supreme Court]]'s decision in ''[[In re Marriage Cases]]'' legalized [[same-sex marriage in California]], the couple married again on June 16, 2008. Theirs was the first same-sex wedding to take place in San Francisco .<ref name="WEDDING">{{cite news |last=Lagos |first=Marisa |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/16/MNPQ11A3VF.DTL&tsp=1 |title=Newsom Marries Activist Couple |publisher=SFGate.com |date=June 16, 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2008}}</ref> Two months later on August 27, 2008, Martin died in San Francisco from complications of an arm [[bone fracture]].<ref name="nyt-27aug2008">{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Del Martin, Lesbian Activist, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28martin.html |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 27, 2008}}</ref> Lyon died years later on April 9, 2020.<ref name="MARTINDEATH" /><ref name="nyt-10apr2020" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//290632 |title=Lesbian pioneer Phyllis Lyon dies |date=April 9, 2020 |website=Bay Area Reporter |access-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412074217/https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//290632 |archive-date=April 12, 2020}}</ref>

==Del Martin==
{{Infobox person
| name               = Del Martin
| image              = Delmartin.jpg
| caption            = Del Martin in 1972
| birth_name         = Dorothy Louise Taliaferro
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1921|05|05}}
| birth_place        = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2008|08|27|1921|05|05}}
| death_place        = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| known_for          = [[Daughters of Bilitis]]
| education          = [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br>[[San Francisco State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Arts|DArts]])
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
*{{marriage|James Martin|1940|1944|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Phyllis Lyon|2004|2004|end=voided}}
*{{marriage|<!--Phyllis Lyon-->|2008}}
}}
| children           = Kendra Mon
}}

Del Martin was born as '''Dorothy Louise Taliaferro''' on May 5, 1921, in San Francisco. She was the first [[salutatorian]] to graduate from [[George Washington High School (San Francisco)|George Washington High School]]. She was educated at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and at [[San Francisco State College]], where she studied journalism. She earned a [[Doctor of Arts]] degree from the [[Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality]].  She was married for four years to James Martin and retained his name after their divorce.<ref name="ABOUT">{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Jone Johnson |url=http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/writers/p/del_martin.htm |title=Del Martin |publisher=About |access-date=February 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060520210958/http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/writers/p/del_martin.htm |archive-date=May 20, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="LGBTRAN">{{cite news |url= http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=124 |title=Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon |publisher=The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network |date=August 4, 2005 |access-date=February 11, 2007}}</ref>  She had one daughter, Kendra Mon. Martin died on August 27, 2008, at UCSF Hospice in San Francisco, from complications of an arm [[bone fracture]]. She was 87 years old.<ref name="MARTINDEATH"/>  Her wife, Phyllis, was at her side. San Francisco mayor [[Gavin Newsom]] ordered that the flags at City Hall be flown at half-staff in her honor.<ref>{{Cite news
  | last = Gordon
  | first = Rachel
  | title = Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87
  | newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle
  | date = August 28, 2008
  | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/28/MNGI12JDIS.DTL
  }}</ref>

In 1977, Martin became an associate of the [[Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press]] (WIFP).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wifp.org/who-we-are/associates/|title=Associates {{!}} The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press|website=www.wifp.org|language=en-US|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication among women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Martin was also one of the founders of the [[Lesbian Mothers Union]].<ref name="GuyAdams">{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Guy |title= Pioneering lesbian rights activist dies just weeks after wedding |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pioneering-lesbian-rights-activist-dies-just-weeks-after-wedding-911906.html |access-date=December 7, 2019 |work=The Independent |date=August 28, 2008}}</ref>

==Phyllis Lyon==
{{Infobox person
|name          = Phyllis Lyon
|image         = Phyllis Lyon in 2008 (cropped).jpg
|caption       = Lyon in 2008
|birth_name    = Phyllis Ann Lyon
|birth_date    = {{Birth date|1924|11|10}}
|birth_place   = [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], U.S.
|death_date    = {{Death date and age|2020|4|9|1924|11|10}}
|death_place   = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
|known_for     = [[Daughters of Bilitis]]
|education     = [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
|spouse        = {{plainlist|
*{{marriage|Del Martin|2004|2004|end=voided}}
*{{marriage|<!--Del Martin-->|2008}}}}
}}
Phyllis Lyon was born on November 10, 1924, in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]].<ref name="ABOUTLYON">{{cite news |last=Belge |first=Kathy |url=http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/herstory/p/PhyllisLyon.htm |title=Phyllis Lyon |publisher=About |access-date=February 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213073929/http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/herstory/p/PhyllisLyon.htm |archive-date=February 13, 2007 }}</ref> She held a degree in journalism from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], earned in 1946. During the 1940s, she worked as a reporter for the ''[[Chico Enterprise-Record]]'', and during the 1950s, she worked as part of the editorial staff of two [[Seattle]] magazines.<ref name="LGBTRAN"/>

On June 26, 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal, the 90-year-old Lyon "laughed and laughed when told the news. 'Well how about that?' she said. 'For goodness' sakes.'"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dolan |first1=Maura |first2=Lee |last2=Romney |date=June 26, 2015 |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-california-gay-marriage-20150627-story.html |title=Same-sex marriage rights in trailblazing California now extend to all |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628143702/https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-california-gay-marriage-20150627-story.html#page=1 |archive-date=June 28, 2015}}</ref> She died on April 9, 2020, at the age of 95.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" />

==Background/marriage==
Martin and Lyon met in [[Seattle]] in 1950 when they began working for the same magazine. They became lovers in 1952 and entered into a  partnership in 1953 when they moved to San Francisco together.<ref name="ABOUT"/><ref name="LGBTRAN"/><ref name="ABOUTLYON" /> Many years later, Lyon and Martin recalled how they learned to live together in 1953. "We really only had problems our first year together. Del would leave her shoes in the middle of the room, and I'd throw them out the window", said Lyon, to which Martin responded, "You'd have an argument with me and try to storm out the door. I had to teach you to fight back."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15518-2004Feb28.html |last=Hull |first=Anne |title=Just Married, After 51 Years Together; Activist Gay Couple Accepts Leading Role |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 29, 2004 |page=A01 |access-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040402083915/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15518-2004Feb28.html |archive-date=April 2, 2004}}</ref>

On February 12, 2004, Martin and Lyon were issued a marriage license by the [[San Francisco, California|City and County of San Francisco]] after mayor [[Gavin Newsom]] [[San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings|ordered]] that marriage licenses be given to same-sex couples who requested them.<ref name="GLBTQSS">{{cite news |last=Gianoulis |first=Tina |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/lyon_p.html |title=Lyon, Phyllis, and Del Martin |publisher=glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture |date=March 4, 2004 |access-date=February 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216142327/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/lyon_p.html |archive-date=February 16, 2007 }}</ref>

The license, along with those of several thousand other same-sex couples, was voided by the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] on August 12, 2004.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" />
{{blockquote|Del is 83 years old and I am 79. After being together for more than 50 years, it is a terrible blow to have the rights and protections of marriage taken away from us. At our age, we do not have the luxury of time.|Phyllis Lyon}}

However, they were married again on June 16, 2008, after the [[California Supreme Court]] ruled that same-sex marriage was legal.<ref name="nyt-27aug2008" /> Once again they were the first couple married in San Francisco, in fact the only couple married that day by the mayor.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/061608coup.htm |title=Big Day For Lesbian Couple Of 55 Years |publisher=365gay.com |date=June 16, 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702144710/http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/061608coup.htm |archive-date=July 2, 2008}}</ref>

==Activism==
===Daughters of Bilitis===
{{Main|Daughters of Bilitis}}
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.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" /><ref name="cnn-10apr2020">{{cite news |last1=Asmelash |first1=Leah |last2=Passantino |first2=Jon |title=Phyllis Lyon, famed LGBTQ activist, dies |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/us/phyllis-lyon-dies-trnd |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[CNN]] |date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> Lyon was the first editor of DOB's newsletter, [[The Ladder (magazine)|''The Ladder'']], beginning in 1956. Martin took over editorship of the newsletter from 1960 to 1962. She was succeeded by other editors until the newsletter ended its connection with the Daughters of Bilitis in 1970.<ref name="ABOUT"/><ref name="LGBTRAN"/>

Within five years of its origin, the Daughters of Bilitis had chapters around the country, including Chicago, New York, New Orleans, San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Denver, Cleveland and Philadelphia. There were 500 subscribers to ''The Ladder'' but far more readers, as copies were circulated among women who were reluctant to put their names to a subscription list.<ref name="GLBTQSS" /> For their pioneering work on ''The Ladder'', Martin and Lyon were among the first inductees into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 by the [[National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association]]. Lyon and Martin remained involved in the DOB until the late 1960s. The Daughters of Bilitis, which had taken a conservative approach to helping lesbians deal with society, disbanded in 1970 due to the rise of more radical activism.<ref name="GLBTQSS" />

===National Organization for Women===
Martin and Lyon were active in the [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) since 1967. Del Martin was the first open lesbian elected to the board of directors of NOW.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" /><ref name="vogue-5may2017">{{cite news |last1=Yaeger |first1=Lynn |title=For Del Martin, Lesbian Rights Pioneer, the Last Act of Activism Was the Most Personal |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/del-martin-lesbian-rights-pioneer-birthday |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=May 5, 2017}}</ref><ref name="lg-pedia">{{cite book |last1=Haggerty |first1=George |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Bonnie |title=Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures |date=September 2, 2003 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=9781135578701 |page=488 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ |access-date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1970, she signaled in an essay the split of lesbian feminists from the male-dominated gay rights movement, characterizing the leaders of that movement as "hollow men of self-proclaimed privilege. They neither speak for us nor to us."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Self|first=Robert O.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768728945|title=All In the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s|publisher=Hill and Wang|year=2012|isbn=978-0-8090-9502-5|edition=First|location=New York|pages=179–180|oclc=768728945}}</ref> Lyon and Martin worked to combat the [[homophobia]] they perceived in NOW, and encouraged the National Board of Directors of NOW's 1971 resolution that lesbian issues were [[feminist]] issues.<ref name="GLBTQSS"/>

===San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women===
In 1977 "Del" Martin was the first openly gay woman to be appointed to the SFCOSW by then Mayor [[George R. Moscone]].<ref name="vogue-5may2017" /><ref name="lg-pedia" />  Martin joined forces with other minority SFCOSW Commissioners, such as Kathleen Hardiman Arnold (now Kathleen Rand Reed), and [[Ella Hill Hutch]], the first Black woman to be elected to the Board of Supervisors, to focus on the nexus of gay women's rights and racial and ethnic discrimination.  In their later work with a health clinic, Martin and Lyon focused, for instance, on the specific health and issues affecting Black and Latina gay women.  Martin was ahead of her time in understanding the cultural aspects of gay health.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

===Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club===
{{main|Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club}}
Lyon and Martin were both active in San Francisco's first gay political organization, the [[Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club]], named after San Francisco-born author [[Alice B. Toklas]].<ref name="nbc-9ap2020">{{cite news |last1=Stelloh |first1=Tim |title=Pioneering lesbian activist Phyllis Lyon dies at 95 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pioneering-lesbian-activist-phyllis-lyon-dies-95-n1180671 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=April 9, 2020}}</ref><ref name="kqed-9apr2020">{{cite news |last1=Shafer |first1=Scott |title=Phyllis Lyon, LGBT Rights Pioneer, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11811612/phyllis-lyon-lgbt-rights-pioneer-dies-at-95 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[KQED Inc.|KQED]] |date=April 9, 2020}}</ref>

===Lyon-Martin Health Services===
'''Lyon-Martin Health Services''' was founded in 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3087|title=The Bay Area Reporter Online - Lesbian pioneers first in city to wed|work=Bay Area Reporter|access-date=November 15, 2014}}</ref> by a group of medical providers and health activists as a clinic for lesbians who lacked access to non-judgmental and affordable health care. Named after Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, the clinic soon became a model for [[culturally-sensitive]] community-based health care. Since 1993, Lyon-Martin also has provided case management and primary healthcare in programs specifically designed for very low-income and uninsured women with [[HIV]], as well as services for [[transgender]] people.<ref name="bar-4apr2018">{{cite news |last1=Madison |first1=Alex |title=New leaders named for Lyon-Martin clinic |url=https://www.ebar.com/news/health/258134 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |date=April 4, 2018}}</ref>

===Senior activists===
[[File:GLBTHistoryMuseum.WeddingPantsuits12 10.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Pantsuits worn by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon to their weddings in San Francisco in 2004 and 2008; on display at the [[GLBT History Museum]]]]

In 1989, Martin and Lyon joined Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. In 1995 they were named delegates to the [[White House Conference on Aging]], Martin by Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] and Lyon by Congresswoman [[Nancy Pelosi]], both from California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4445141 |title=Del Martin Obituary - Equality California |access-date=November 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224074042/http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4445141 |archive-date=December 24, 2014 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
Books are written by both Martin and Lyon except where noted:
* ''[[Lesbian/Woman]]'' (1972), about lesbian life in modern America
* ''Lesbian Love and Liberation'' (1973), about lesbians and sexual liberty
* ''Battered Wives'' (1979), by Martin, blamed American [[domestic violence]] on institutionalized [[misogyny]]<ref name="GLBTQSS"/>

==Legacy==
===Documentary films===
In 2003 filmmaker JEB ([[Joan E. Biren]]) released a documentary film on the couple, ''No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon'', available from [[Frameline]].<ref name="frame-secret">{{cite web |title=No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon |url=https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/no-secret-anymore-the-times-of-del-martin-and-phyllis-lyon |website=[[Frameline]] |access-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411013432/https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/no-secret-anymore-the-times-of-del-martin-and-phyllis-lyon |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 1993 documentary ''[[Last Call at Maud's]]'' also featured Martin and Lyon.<ref name="frame-maud">{{cite web |title=Last Call at Maud's |url=https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/last-call-at-mauds |website=[[Frameline]] |access-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411013436/https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/last-call-at-mauds |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Honors===
In 2014, Martin was one of the inaugural honorees in the [[Rainbow Honor Walk]], a [[List of halls and walks of fame|walk of fame]] in San Francisco's [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro neighborhood]] noting [[LGBTQ]] people who have "made significant contributions in their fields."<ref name=":022">{{Cite web|url=https://quirkytravelguy.com/lgbt-walk-fame-rainbow-honor-san-francisco/|title=The Rainbow Honor Walk: San Francisco's LGBT Walk of Fame|last=Shelter|first=Scott|date=March 14, 2016|website=Quirky Travel Guy|language=en-US|access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/|title=Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today: SFist|date=September 2, 2014|website=SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports|access-date=August 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810075052/https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/|archive-date=August 10, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gaysonoma.com/2016/07/second-lgbt-honorees-selected-for-san-franciscos-rainbow-honor-walk/|title=Second LGBT Honorees Selected for San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk|last=Carnivele|first=Gary|date=July 2, 2016|website=We The People|access-date=August 12, 2019}}</ref>

In June 2019, Martin was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted and listed on the [[National LGBTQ Wall of Honor]] within the [[Stonewall National Monument]] in [[New York City]]'s [[Stonewall Inn]].<ref name=":23">{{Cite web|url=https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/stonewall-inn-lgbtq-wall-honor|title=National LGBTQ Wall of Honor unveiled at Stonewall Inn|last=Glasses-Baker|first=Becca|date=June 27, 2019|website=www.metro.us|access-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref><ref name="SDGLN">{{Cite web |url=https://sdgln.com/news/2019/06/19/national-lgbtq-wall-honor-be-unveiled-historic-stonewall-inn |title=National LGBTQ Wall of Honor to be unveiled at historic Stonewall Inn |last=Rawles |first=Timothy |date=June 19, 2019 |website=San Diego Gay and Lesbian News |language=en |access-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621091646/https://sdgln.com/news/2019/06/19/national-lgbtq-wall-honor-be-unveiled-historic-stonewall-inn}}</ref>

The Monument is the first [[National monument (United States)|U.S. national monument]] dedicated to [[LGBT rights in the United States|LGBTQ rights]] and [[History of LGBT people|history]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ebar.com/news/news//272833|title=Groups seek names for Stonewall 50 honor wall|website=The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc.|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2019}}</ref> The wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|50th anniversary]] of the [[Stonewall riots]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sfbaytimes.com/stonewall-50/|title=Stonewall 50|date=April 3, 2019|website=San Francisco Bay Times|access-date=May 25, 2019}}</ref>

In June 2020, Lyon was added to the [[National LGBTQ Wall of Honor]].<ref name=":wct3">{{Cite web|title=New honorees named for Nat'l LGBTQ Wall of Honor at Stonewall Inn|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/New-honorees-named-for-Natl-LGBTQ-Wall-of-Honor-at-Stonewall-Inn/68836.html|access-date=2020-07-01|website=[[Windy City Times]]|date=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
[[Rosie O'Donnell]] plays Martin and [[Maddie Corman]] plays Lyon in the miniseries about LGBT rights called ''[[When We Rise]]''.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=ABC's Gay Rights Mini Enlists Michael K. Williams, Sets All-Star Guest Cast|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/abcs-gay-rights-mini-enlists-887779|last=Goldberg|first=Leslie|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]]|location=United States|date=April 26, 2016|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref>

Season 3, episode 7 of the [[podcast]] ''[[Making Gay History]]'' is about Martin and Lyon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://makinggayhistory.com/season-three/ |title=Season Three |publisher=Making Gay History |date=1988-10-11 |access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>

[[Shannon Purser]] plays Martin and [[Heather Matarazzo]] plays Lyon in the [[HBO Max]] series ''Equal'', formally announced on August 24, 2020.

==Archival sources==
The extensive records of Lyon and Martin's professional and activist pursuits, including the administrative files of the Daughters of Bilitis, are preserved at the [[GLBT Historical Society]] in San Francisco. The collection is fully processed and is available for use by researchers. The [[Online Archive of California]] (a project of the [[California Digital Library]]) offers the complete finding aid.<ref name="oac-lyon-martin">{{cite web |title=Guide to the Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Papers, 1924-2000 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9w100781/ |website=[[Online Archive of California]] |access-date=April 10, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[LGBT culture in San Francisco]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* [[Bullough, Vern L.]] (ed.)  ''Before Stonewall:  Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context,'' Harrington Park Press, 2002.
* Gallo, Marcia M. ''Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement,'' Carroll & Graf, 2006; Seal Press, 2007.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|1720087|Del Martin}}
* {{IMDb name|1720077|Phyllis Lyon}}
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