Phyllis Lyon, left, and her wife, Del Martin Phyllis Lyon, who co-founded founded Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the U.S., has died at age 95 in San Francisco.
Lyon was born on Nov. 10, 1924, in Tulsa, Okla. She earned a degree in journalism from U.C. Berkley in 1946. She met her wife, Del Martin, in 1952.
They were together until Martin’s death in 2008. In 2004, they became the first couple in California to marry in a ceremony conducted by then-Mayor/now-Gov.