Editing Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (section)

===San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women===
In 1977 "Del" Martin was the first openly gay woman to be appointed to the SFCOSW by then Mayor [[George R. Moscone]].<ref name="vogue-5may2017" /><ref name="lg-pedia" />  Martin joined forces with other minority SFCOSW Commissioners, such as Kathleen Hardiman Arnold (now Kathleen Rand Reed), and [[Ella Hill Hutch]], the first Black woman to be elected to the Board of Supervisors, to focus on the nexus of gay women's rights and racial and ethnic discrimination.  In their later work with a health clinic, Martin and Lyon focused, for instance, on the specific health and issues affecting Black and Latina gay women.  Martin was ahead of her time in understanding the cultural aspects of gay health.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}