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Name:: Honoring Del Martin
Category:: Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
Description:: On August 27, 2008 our country lost a social justice pioneer and warrior. Del Martin was one of the nation’s first and most visible lesbian rights activists. Coming out in the 1950s, she dedicated her life to combating homophobia, sexism, violence, and racism.

Without Del's (and her wife Phyllis Lyon's), courage, smarts, and unrelenting determination and dedication, LGBT people -- and the families we now create so openly -- would not have the freedom, acceptance, and safety that we have today.

But Del's work -- our work -- is far from done.

Help honor Del's memory:
:: Invite all your friends to this group

:: Defeat the California marriage ban. Donate here:
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:: Learn more about Del
http://www.nclrights.org/site/DocServer/Del_Martin_Obituary.pdf?docID=3781
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On August 27, 2008 our country lost a social justice pioneer and warrior. Del Martin was one of the nation’s first and most visible lesbian rights activists. Coming out in the 1950s, she dedicated her life to combating homophobia, sexism, violence, and racism.

Without Del's (and her wife Phyllis Lyon's), courage, smarts, and unrelenting determination and dedication, LGBT people -- and the families we now create so openly -- would not have the freedom, acceptance, and safety that we have... (read more)
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News:: Time Magazine -- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836777,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

Lesbian Pioneer Del Martin Dies
Bay Area Reporter
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3285

Out in the Bay Special Retrospect
Interview with Del Martin + Phyllis Lyon from Feb. 2006
http://www.outinthebay.com/

Del Martin, LGBT-Rights Activist, Dies
by Rob Anderson at Pushback
http://www.pushback.org/2008/08/28/del-martin-lgbt-rights-activist-dies/

Mourning
(from Kate Kendell's(NCLR) blog
http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=blog_katesBlog

NYT: Del Martin, Lesbian Activist, Dies at 87
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28martin.html?scp=1&sq=del%20martin&st=cse

Del Martin remembered on Fresh Air (8/29/08)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94105031

Barack Obama Statement on the loss of Del Martin
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/jcitron/gG5lkP

MSNBC: Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87
She wed her partner in June after Calif. allowed same-sex marriages

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