R.I.P.: Del Martin

Del Martin, left, with Phyllis Lyon in 1972

Del Martin, co-founder of the first national lesbian-rights organization in the United States, died Aug. 27, 2008 at age 87.
Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis in the conformist '50s, long before the Stonewall riots of 1969 brought the gay civil rights movement into the spotlight.
Martin and Lyon, whose relationship spanned six decades, were married June 16, 2008 at San Francisco's city hall — the first same-sex couple to be united in that city under California's new marriage law.
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