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Pioneer lesbian activist dies in California
One of the two women who became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in San Francisco in June has died.
Del Martin, a pioneer lesbian rights activist with her partner of more than 50 years, Phyllis Lyon, died Wednesday. She was 87.
According to a Los Angeles Times story, she died in the hospice unit of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, two weeks after a broken arm worsened existing health problems.
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By Fred
August 28, 2008 10:56 PM | Link to this
The city of Sodom (in the Bible) would be considered entirely “too conservitive” for San Francisco.