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A Woman to Know: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

If you wait for the right time, there’s never a right time. — Phyllis Lyon

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If you wait for the right time, there’s never a right time. — Phyllis Lyon

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Del and Phyllis met in 1950. In 1952, they became lovers. In 1953, they moved to San Francisco together. In 2004, after 50-plus years of romance, activism and organizing, they finally got married in San Francisco’s first-ever legal same-sex w…

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