Daughters of Bilitis: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon The Daughters of Bilitis, America’s first lesbian organization, was founded in 1955 in San Fransisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. A reaction to their discomfort in the city’s lesbian bars, the DOB was initially founded as a social club. The name comes from Pierre Louys’s writings on sapphic love, and Martin and Lyon thought it would make their new group “sound like any other women’s lodge…like the Daughters of the Nile….If anyone asked us, we could always say we belonged to a poetry club.” with bisexualcaliforniacourtdeldobgavingayglbthomophilelesbianlgbtlouyslyonmarriagephyllispierrequeersame-sexsocietysupreme Note: Daughters of Bilitis: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
G Spot Toys Blog » Blog Archive » Serving in Silence: Margarethe Cammermeyer In 1961 Margarethe Cammermeyer joined the United States Army to help pay her way through college, and graduated as an army nurse in 1963. She later married a fellow soldier and served 14 months in Vietnam as a head nurse in the military medical unit. Cammermeyer and her husband had four children, but divorced after 15 years; she had been struggling with her sexuality for many years, and finally understood who she was. with armyaskbisexualcammermeyerdontgayglbtlesbianlgbtmargarethequeerstatestelltransgenderunited Note: G Spot Toys Blog » Blog Archive » Serving in Silence: Margarethe Cammermeyer