Editing Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (section)

===National Organization for Women===
Martin and Lyon were active in the [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) since 1967. Del Martin was the first open lesbian elected to the board of directors of NOW.<ref name="nyt-10apr2020" /><ref name="vogue-5may2017">{{cite news |last1=Yaeger |first1=Lynn |title=For Del Martin, Lesbian Rights Pioneer, the Last Act of Activism Was the Most Personal |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/del-martin-lesbian-rights-pioneer-birthday |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=May 5, 2017}}</ref><ref name="lg-pedia">{{cite book |last1=Haggerty |first1=George |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Bonnie |title=Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures |date=September 2, 2003 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=9781135578701 |page=488 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ |access-date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1970, she signaled in an essay the split of lesbian feminists from the male-dominated gay rights movement, characterizing the leaders of that movement as "hollow men of self-proclaimed privilege. They neither speak for us nor to us."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Self|first=Robert O.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768728945|title=All In the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s|publisher=Hill and Wang|year=2012|isbn=978-0-8090-9502-5|edition=First|location=New York|pages=179–180|oclc=768728945}}</ref> Lyon and Martin worked to combat the [[homophobia]] they perceived in NOW, and encouraged the National Board of Directors of NOW's 1971 resolution that lesbian issues were [[feminist]] issues.<ref name="GLBTQSS"/>