Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Heroes of Human Liberation

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Heroes of Human Liberation Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Legally married again after 55 years together.
Founders in 1955 of Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder, the first lesbian rights organization and and publication, at the height of McCarthyite and FBI homophobic repression.
Authors of early books on lesbian women, human sexuality, and battered women.
Leaders of the struggle for inclusion of lesbians and their rights in the movement and agenda of NOW and other second-wave feminist organizations.