Several years earlier, DOB founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon similarly relegated sexual acts as unnecessary in determining what a lesbian is, by providing their definition: " a woman whose primary erotic, psychological, emotional and social interest is in a member of her own sex, even though that interest may not be overtly expressed ".

* Martin, Del, Lyon, Phyllis ( 1991 ).

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Dorothy Louise Taliaferro " Del " Martin ( May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008 ) and Phyllis Ann Lyon ( born November 10, 1924 ) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists.

Martin and Lyon met in 1950, became lovers in 1952, and moved in together on Valentine's Day 1953 in an apartment on Castro Street in San Francisco.

In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had been together as lovers for three years when they complained to a gay male couple that they did not know any other lesbians.

The gay couple introduced Martin and Lyon to another lesbian couple, one of whom suggested they create a social club.

Martin and Lyon recalled later, " Women needed privacy ... not only from the watchful eye of the police, but from gaping tourists in the bars and from inquisitive parents and families.

The name was chosen for its obscurity ; even Martin and Lyon did not know what it meant.

Martin and Lyon justified the name, writing later, " If anyone asked us, we could always say we belong to a poetry club.

Soon after forming, the DOB wrote a mission statement that addressed the most significant problem Martin and Lyon had faced as a couple: the complete lack of information about female homosexuality in what historian Martin Meeker termed, " the most fundamental journey a lesbian has to make.

" When the club realized they were not allowed to advertise their meetings in the local newspaper, Lyon and Martin, who both had backgrounds in journalism, began to print a newsletter to distribute to as many women as the group knew.

Martin was the first president and Lyon became the editor of The Ladder.

In the 1970s, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon reflected that by contemporary standards, the early ideals of the DOB for integration and adjustment of the lesbian into society were outmoded, but they remembered that in the 1950s and early 1960s many gay men and lesbians considered those ideals unreachable, and this approach radical.

In 1964, Martin and Lyon began to control less of the organization, saying, " We felt that if the organization had any validity at all it couldn't be based on two people, it had to be able to stand and grow on its own.

The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.

In 1966, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon joined the National Organization for Women, and urged readers of The Ladder to do the same, even reporting they got a family discount.

When Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon discovered its loss, they assumed the police or FBI had confiscated it.

Previous editors Martin, Lyon, Gittings, and Sandoz considered the act a theft.

The complete surviving organizational records of the national office and the San Francisco Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis are available to researchers as part of the Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Papers at the GLBT Historical Society, a nonprofit archives and research center in San Francisco.

* Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon.

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Kent Nagano ( conductor ), Kenn Chester, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Cheryl Studer, & the Orchestre of Opera De Lyon & Chorus for Floyd: Susannah

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

Production could not start because of the outbreak of World War I, and Martin joined the Admiralty and Bamford the Royal Army Service Corps.

Frasier and Martin are joined by Daphne Moon ( Leeves ), Martin's English, live-in physical therapist and caretaker, and Martin's dog Eddie ( Moose ).

He then joined Xerox PARC to work with Martin Newell.

In April 1629 he joined the University of Franeker, living at the Sjaerdemaslot, and the next year, under the name " Poitevin ", he enrolled at the Leiden University to study mathematics with Jacob Golius and astronomy with Martin Hortensius.

However, the NFL pulled the game away from Arizona after the league joined a massive, nationwide tourist boycott by various groups to protest the state ’ s refusal to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The church joined with Morehouse College to launch Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School Leadership Academy.

In 1997 BAe joined the Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter team.

He joined the Bristol Old Vic and was there for two years 1959 – 1961, time he described as ' the bedrock of his career ', followed by much other stage work: as Brecht's Arturo Ui, The Strange Case of Martin Richter, Disabled, The Heretic, The Caretaker and Semi-Detached ( in New York ).

He joined the Christian Union of UCCF while at Cambridge and met his future wife, Ruth Martin, another member of the Union and also a mathematics student.

It was also the second-ever " duo "; Lori Martin joined Trotter for the barrel ride over the falls.

Following Star Trek in 1969, Nimoy immediately joined the cast of the spy series Mission: Impossible, which was seeking a replacement for Martin Landau.

In early December 1941, he visited his youngest brother Martin, after which he joined the Slovene partisan resistance.

Feeling humiliated for being left in the net after having let in nine goals in 26 shots during a Canadiens game against the Red Wings, Roy joined the Avalanche on December 6, 1995, together with ex-Montreal captain Mike Keane in a trade for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko.

An eleven-year NBA veteran and former NBA All-Star ( 2004 ), Martin joined the Clippers after signing with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association the previous summer.

George Martin joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955.

Martin discovers an unconscious Georgie ( attempted suicide ) and is joined by Honor while waiting for the ambulance.

In 2004, guitarists Greg Martin ( of the Kentucky Headhunters ) and Rick Derringer joined Glass Harp on stage at the Dallas International Guitar Festival.

Frank Sinatra continued his legendary career, and was joined by Mario Lanza, Perry Como, Dean Martin ( Dino Crocetti ), Tony Bennett ( Benedetto ), Frankie Laine ( Francesco LoVecchio ), Vic Damone ( Vito Farinola ), Don Cornell ( Luigi Varlaro ), Bobby Darin ( Walden Cassotto ), Johnny Desmond ( Giovanni De Simone ), Bobby Rydell ( Ridarelli ), Julius La Rosa, Connie Francis ( Concetta Franconero ), Joanie James ( Giovanna Babbo ), Madonna and a host of others.

Martin Atkins, who had initially joined at the tail end of the Metal Box sessions, was re-recruited to drum on The Flowers of Romance.

On August 12, 1838, thirty-three Rangers joined Joseph Martin in laying out the plans for the town.

In 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Milo Ence, Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Stucki, Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Gubler, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reber, and Mr. and Mrs. Loren Stucki joined the group.

Tillman Houser, another early settler who brought his family over Snoqualmie Pass to settle on Coleman Creek, entered the valley on June 16 of that same year, and was later joined by Martin Dervan and his wife.

Initially there was much confusion among republicans on the ground, Martin McGuinness for example, joined the Official IRA in 1970, unaware that there had been a split and only later joined the Provisionals.