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With California ruling on Proposition 8 today, Phyllis Lyon [left], the surviving half of the first gay couple to marry in San Francisco, gives her take on the issue. More »
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The late gay rights and marriage equality activist Del Martin will be honored by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom today at the San Francisco City Hall. Speakers will include the Rev. Cecil Williams, writer Jewell Gomez, and Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was also scheduled to speak but she has to tend to some cry baby House members over the economic crisis. Newsom also wrote a remembrance of Martin for the HuffPo about her struggle for marriage equality. [Towleroad, Huffington Post] More »
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If ever there was an icon for the union of the personal and the political, it was lesbian activist Del Martin, who died yesterday at 87. Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US, and they also married each other twice, once during San Francisco's "Winter of Love" in 2004, and again on June 16 of this year in the first legal gay marriage in California. Of California's legalization of gay marriage, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendall said, "It would not be happening if it were not for Del and Phyllis." Which turns out to be true of many advances in LGBT rights dating all the way back to the 1950s, and of a fifty-five-year partnership now receiving much-deserved public honor. More »
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Del Martin, a lesbian activist and a founder of the nation's first outspoken lesbian advocacy group — the Daughters of Bilitis — passed away this morning at the age of 85. Martin was also one of the first same-sex couples to get married in California. More on Ms. Martin tomorrow. • There's a legal loophole in Australia in which women who abort late-term fetuses are still eligible to receive a "baby bonus" reward from the government. • The differences between the way women and their bodies are represented on the old and new versions of 90210 reveal how our standards for "ideal" female bodies have changed. • How did minority characters and actors make out through the summer blockbusters? Uh, not too great. • More »
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