Margie Adam in Conversation with Phyllis Lyon
Recently added to the new YouTube channel of singer/songwriter/musician and lesbian activist Margie Adam is a conversation that she had with fellow lesbian and social justice activist Phyllis Lyon (1924–2020).
Phyllis and Del Martin (1921–2008) in 1955 co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first organization for lesbians. The Daughters of Bilitis, as well as the Mattachine Society, helped to forge the groundwork for the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
In 2008, when same-sex marriage was legalized in California, Del and Phyllis were the first couple to get married in San Francisco. They also married 4 years prior, when then SF Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The members of a San Francisco supervisors panel are recommending that their colleagues start the process to landmark a gay-owned bar in the city s South of Market district.
At its meeting January 25 the supervisors land use and transportation committee unanimously voted 3-0 in support of having the city s historic preservation commission consider if the Eagle Bar, an important entertainment venue located in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, should be designated a city landmark. It would be the third gay bar location in San Francisco given such status if approved, and the first LGBTQ city landmark located in SOMA and related to queer leather culture.
LGBTQ Votes Were Crucial in the 2020 Election
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It goes without saying that no one played Frank Sinatraâs âIt Was a Very Good Yearâ on This Is Itâs jukebox this past New Yearâs Eve. In these times of social strife, economic woes and a deadly pandemic, even the most ironically inclined would not have dared venture there. On top of everything else, regime assaults on LGBTQ rights made life exasperating. Even in defeat, they continued. A month after the election, the U.S. Department of Labor moved to allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQs. Michigan followed suit, ruling that the stateâs anti-discrimination law doesnât protect gays. But letâs not dwellâ¦
Hearings on requests from supervisors to landmark two LGBTQ historic sites in San Francisco are expected to take place in the coming weeks. If approved for listing, they would bring the number of properties in the city granted local landmark status specifically for their ties to LGBTQ history to six.
At its February 17 meeting the city s Historic Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote on landmarking the home where the late lesbian pioneering couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived throughout most of their 54 years together. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman authored the resolution unanimously supported by the Board of Supervisors to begin the landmark process for the property at 651 Duncan Street.
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