Interior of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin home San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced a resolution to initiate landmark designation for the longtime home of pioneering lesbian activists SAN FRANCISCO — On Tuesday, Sept.
29, San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced a resolution to designate the former home of pioneering LGBTQ and civil rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin as a local historic landmark. “Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were trailblazers in the LGBTQ rights movement, co-founding the first lesbian political organization in the country in the 1950s and becoming the first same-sex couple legally married in California,” said Mandelman who is the only LGBTQ member of the Board of Supervisors and