Editing Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (section)

===Daughters of Bilitis===
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In 1955, Martin and Lyon and six other lesbian women formed the [[Daughters of Bilitis]] (DOB), the first national lesbian organization in the United States.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" /><ref name="cnn-10apr2020">{{cite news |last1=Asmelash |first1=Leah |last2=Passantino |first2=Jon |title=Phyllis Lyon, famed LGBTQ activist, dies |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/us/phyllis-lyon-dies-trnd |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[CNN]] |date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> Lyon was the first editor of DOB's newsletter, [[The Ladder (magazine)|''The Ladder'']], beginning in 1956. Martin took over editorship of the newsletter from 1960 to 1962. She was succeeded by other editors until the newsletter ended its connection with the Daughters of Bilitis in 1970.<ref name="ABOUT"/><ref name="LGBTRAN"/>

Within five years of its origin, the Daughters of Bilitis had chapters around the country, including Chicago, New York, New Orleans, San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Denver, Cleveland and Philadelphia. There were 500 subscribers to ''The Ladder'' but far more readers, as copies were circulated among women who were reluctant to put their names to a subscription list.<ref name="GLBTQSS" /> For their pioneering work on ''The Ladder'', Martin and Lyon were among the first inductees into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 by the [[National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association]]. Lyon and Martin remained involved in the DOB until the late 1960s. The Daughters of Bilitis, which had taken a conservative approach to helping lesbians deal with society, disbanded in 1970 due to the rise of more radical activism.<ref name="GLBTQSS" />