{"id":10099,"date":"2022-04-29T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T23:30:41","slug":"del-martin-and-phyllis-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/del-martin-and-phyllis-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, more than a marriage, a lesbian cry for freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-1024x682.png\" alt=\"Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon\" class=\"wp-image-10100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Del-Martin-y-Phyllis-Lyon-mas-que-un-matrimonio-un-grito-lesbico-de-libertad-1068x711.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PERSONAJE-DE-LA-SEMANA-DIA-DE-LA-VISIBILIDAD-LESBICA-5.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><sup>Listen to Constanza Mazzotti's voice note<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They hold each other&#039;s arms facing each other, leaning their faces together until they meet in an intimate gesture of belonging, both wearing suits, one in light blue and the other in lilac, both have grey hair but only one of them hides it in a dark shade, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in the centre of a group of people celebrating their wedding. This is the photo that went around the country and tells of a lesbian cry for freedom in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esta semana, en el marco del D\u00eda de la Visibilidad L\u00e9sbica que se celebra cada 26 de abril, recordamos a dos pioneras de la lucha por los derechos de las lesbianas en California y el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Del Martin naci\u00f3 en San Francisco el 5 de mayo de 1921 y Phyllis Ann Lyon en Tulsa el 10 de noviembre de 1924, ambas constituyeron la primera pareja de lesbianas en contraer matrimonio de manera legal en San Francisco en 2004 aunque al mes de haber celebrado la uni\u00f3n, la Corte Suprema de California invalid\u00f3 su matrimonio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sin embargo, la historia de Del Martin y Phyllis Lyon primer matrimonio l\u00e9sbico de San Francisco comenz\u00f3 muchos a\u00f1os antes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corr\u00edan los a\u00f1os m\u00e1s pr\u00f3speros de Estados Unidos por la posguerra, los a\u00f1os cincuenta, cuando los grupos minoritarios comenzaban a asomarse en la esfera p\u00fablica que reprim\u00eda, sobre todo, la diversidad sexual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy Louise Taliaferro \u00abDel\u00bb Martin y Phyllis Lyon decidieron crear en 1955 la organizaci\u00f3n Las Hijas de Bilitis \u2012DOB, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s\u2012, nombre acu\u00f1ado a ra\u00edz del personaje l\u00e9sbico contempor\u00e1neo a Safo del autor franc\u00e9s Pierre Lou\u00ffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dicha organizaci\u00f3n social y pol\u00edtica fue la primera para lesbianas en Estados Unidos para despu\u00e9s unirse en 1967 a la Organizaci\u00f3n Nacional de Mujeres \u2012NOW, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s\u2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las Hijas de Bilitis lanz\u00f3 su propia revista, \u00abThe Ladder\u00bb, en los a\u00f1os cincuenta, una publicaci\u00f3n que en sus inicios era apenas un panfleto engrapado repartida de mano en mano entre las lesbianas que poco a poco se iban conociendo y cuya finalidad era la de crear comunidad fuera de la esfera p\u00fablica en donde f\u00e1cilmente podr\u00edan ser reprendidas y reprimidas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabe mencionar que \u00abThe Ladder\u00bb se convirti\u00f3 en la primera revista de y para la comunidad l\u00e9sbica de tiraje nacional hasta su desaparici\u00f3n en la d\u00e9cada de los setenta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon passed away on August 27, 2008 and April 9, 2020, respectively, in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambas activistas trabajaron conjuntamente por m\u00e1s de cincuenta a\u00f1os por la lucha de los derechos LGBTI entre las lesbianas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/james-franco-celebrates-44-years-of-life\/\">James Franco celebrates 44 years of life amid controversy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se toman por los brazos de frente, inclinan sus rostros hasta encontrarse en un \u00edntimo gesto de pertenencia, las dos visten trajes, una en tono azul claro y la otra en lila, ambas tienen cabellos grises pero s\u00f3lo una de ellas las esconde en un tono oscuro, Del Martin y Phyllis Lyon al centro de [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}