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	Daughters of Bilitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was formed in San Francisco, California in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon along with six other women.
		"Daughters" was meant to evoke association with other American sororal associations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
		The name of the journal refers to Plato's pedagogic hierarchy, "the ladder of beauty".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daughters_of_Bilitis (265 words)

	DOB - TheBestLinks.com - Astronomer, Childbirth, Daughters of Bilitis, Disambig, ...
		DOB, Astronomer, Childbirth, Daughters of Bilitis, Disambig, Dobsonian, 2...
		DOB - TheBestLinks.com - Astronomer, Childbirth, Daughters of Bilitis, Disambig,...
		"Dob" is also astronomer slang for a Dobsonian telescope.
	www.thebestlinks.com /DOB.html (119 words)

	The Songs of Bilitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Daughters of Bilitis (founded 1955) was the first American lesbian campaigning and cultural society.
		The book's sensual poems are in the manner of Sappho; the introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis, a contemporary of Sappho.
		Like the poems of Sappho, those of 'Bilitis' address themselves to the sapphic love of women and girls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Songs_of_Bilitis (228 words)

	Daughters of Bilitis
		Daughters of Bilitis (D.O.B.) was founded in San Francisco, California in 1955.
		Barbara Gittings -- founder of the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis
		With such choices, the direction of the Daughters of Bilitis was split.
	members.aol.com /matrixwerx/glbthistory/bilitis.htm (340 words)

	Gerber/Hart Library - News and Events - Winds of Change
		Two DOB leaders circulated a proposal to disband the national board and form a loose federation of chapters under a "United Daughters of Bilitis, Inc." banner.
		DOB was a potent mix of counseling and social services, with a dash of grassroots organizing thrown in.
		DOB’s Chicago chapter was organized in late 1961 and officially chartered in 1962.
	www.gerberhart.org /dob.html (1295 words)

	Daughters of Bilitis - dKosopedia
		Daughters of Bilitis (D.O.B.) founded in San Francisco, California in 1955.
		The name "Bilitis" derives from a book of poetry "Songs of Bilitis" {http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob000.htm] by French poet Pierre Louys which purports to be translations of a contemporary of Sappho's and explores same sex eroticism between women.
		Because it was often unsafe to be know as lesbian at the time, members, if asked, could always say it was "a women's poetry group."
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Daughters_of_Bilitis (238 words)

	THE LADDER NO.1, VOLUME 1
		The Daughters of Bilitis is anxious to hear from any professional people desiring further information regarding our activities; form researchers planning projects on our subject, or with projects underway.
		With the aid of a young woman Philadelphia who has some 70 odd titles in her personal collection of fiction on the Lesbian theme, the Daughters of Bilitis are compiling a bibliography to be published in future issues of The Ladder.
		This heretofor[sic] untouched subject has been broached by members of the Daughters of Bilitis in several discussion sessions, one of which was led by Faith Rossiter, psychotherapist.
	lrc.csun.edu /~jjarvis/LLC/Ladder.html (1935 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Daughters of Bilitis
		The inability of the Daughters of Bilitis to survive the tumultuous 1960s does not diminish its importance in glbtq history.
		Founded in 1955 in San Francisco, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the first national lesbian political and social organization in the United States.
		At first a social club, the Daughters of Bilitis, influenced by the Mattachine Society, a gay men's group, soon adopted more political goals.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/daughters_bilitis.html (1179 words)

	bilitisdof
		"Bilitis" was quoted in a poem by Pierre Louys (she was associated with Sappho the Greek poetess) and "The Daughters of...
		DOB was an organisation of its time, it did wonderfully well, it did what had to be done and deserves our love, respect and remembrance.
		of 1969 DOB had been in existence for 15 years and had already seemed to some to be out of date; its rigid fabric of Chapter, President and elected officers unable to find the spontaneity needed for organising instant demonstrations and protests.
	www.rowfant.demon.co.uk /bilititisdof.htm (1092 words)

	Coming Out In America
		The three main organizations of the 1950's were the Mattachine Society, ONE, Inc., and the Daughters of Bilitis.
		The group was called the Daughters of Bilitis.
		In 1958, Barbara Gittings held the first Daughters of Bilitis meeting in New York.
	cowboyfrank.net /archive/ComingOut/02.htm (1157 words)

	p4txt
		The name was taken from "Songs of Bilitis" a lesbian love poem published in 1894: DOB founders felt that the name sounded like a sorority, a literary society, or a women's organization like the Daughters of the American Revolution.
		By the 1960s, working with the women's organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Society chapters all over the country had begun a steady push for greater rights for homosexuals.
		During the 1950s, informants infiltrated the organization and reported the names of members to the FBI and the CIA.
	www.pbs.org /outofthepast/past/p4/p4txt (1053 words)

	Off Our Backs: Celebrating the Years of The Ladder
		It was what held the Daughters of Bilitis together as a national organization for 15 years-a means of disseminating information about DOB activities as well as those of the other early gay rights groups.
		It was originally conceived of as a recruitment tool and publicity vehicle for the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the all-female homophile ("love of same") group, founded in San Francisco in 1955 by a group of eight lesbians including Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
		By the late 1960s, there were sharp disagreements within the Daughters of Bilitis over the growing importance of feminism to the lesbian rights movement, and struggles over local, rather than national, organizing and autonomy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_200505/ai_n14801784 (1415 words)

	Out In The Mountains : Columns - Women Like That
		In 1953 two women, Phyllis Lyons and Del Martin, founded the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian group, in San Francisco.
		By the 1960s, Gittings and her partner, Kay Lahusen, who had also helped found the New York chapter of the DOB, were tired of the assimilationist position taken by the DOB and the gay movement as a whole.
		Also, the term ‘homosexual’ legally referred to a gay man, so the DOB suggested that a lesbian say no if a policeman or court official asked whether she was a homosexual.
	mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/2003/07jul2003/col05_likethat.htm (1066 words)

	Ladder
		It was the publication of the then new Lesbian organization The Daughters of Bilitis, founded by Lyon and Del Martin in San Francisco, in September, 1955.
	www.ayerpub.com /Product.asp?ProductID=4400000014556 (169 words)

	Pierre Louÿs
		The 20th Century lesbian-oriented homophile association the Daughters of Bilitis is named for his 1894 compilation The Songs of Bilitis.
	www.portaljuice.com /pierre_lou_yuml_s.html (50 words)

	I, BILITIS, DAUGHTER OF DAMPHYLOS:
		Bilitis began as an apparition, one man's shocking (certainly to Wilamowitz) and subversive expression of lesbian desire in the ancient Mediterranean; a miasma of Orientalism veils this fictional embodiment of female homosexual desire.
		Yet from this queer beginning comes a queer icon; Bilitis lives on, having transcended Louÿs' literary deception to acquire new layers of meaning from successive generations of lesbians in search of a foremother.
		Scholars still debate Louÿs' intentions; suffice it to say that some readers were deceived by these "translations" and many took Bilitis for a real personage (including the editors of some dictionaries of Classical antiquities).
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/prince.html (450 words)

	ONE, Inc.
		The Daughters of Bilitis was the counterpart lesbian organisation to the Mattachine Society, and the organisations worked together on some campaigns and ran lecture-series.
		ONE admitted women, and ONE and Mattachine provided vital help to the Daughters of Bilitis in the launching of their newsletter The Ladder: a lesbian review in 1956.
		Bilitis came under vicious attack in the early 1970s for 'siding' with Mattachine and ONE, rather than with the new seperatist feminists.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/ONE,-Inc..htm (300 words)

	G&L: Events 1950-1964
		The name Daughters of Bilitis was taken from the poem, Songs of Bilitis, by Pierre Louys.
		1955 ushered in the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian organization designed to promote a sense of community, belongingness, and political unity for women.
		This publication is often considered one of the first major steps in the gay liberation movement more commonly associated with the late 1960's and early 1970's.
	edweb.sdsu.edu /people/cmathison/gay_les/ev5064.html (249 words)

	2003 Schedule
		Not only were they founding members of the first national lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in 1955, but Phyllis was the editor of its newsletter The Ladder, using the pseudonym "Ann Ferguson" for the first three issues before revealing her real name in print.
		In 1960, the DOB held a national convention in San Francisco, which was the focus of considerable police attention.
		No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon traces the lesbian rights movement from the 1950's to the present by tracing the remarkable lives of two women who were right there in the middle of it every step of the way.
	www.agliff.org /browse_site.php/2003_Schedule/?url=ProgView&id=216 (232 words)

	Preserving S.F.'s queer history
		Founded in 1950 and 1955, respectively, the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis were the first enduring gay and lesbian advocacy organizations in the United States.
		In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the structure housed the national offices of the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis.
		Just a few storefronts down from the St. Regis is the GLBT Historical Society, in whose archives can be found organizational records and newsletters of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society, as well as many of the publications put out by Pan Graphic Press.
	article.wn.com /link/WNATB17A476FB48686FED888DCFDDB1C028B?source=templategenerator&template=worldnews/search.txt (883 words)

	words: homophile
		The homophile movement in the U. developed early in the 1950s with the formation of the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and One.
		The accommodationism of the homophiles has often been criticized as cowardly, but had they marched in the streets in 1955 shouting "out of the closets into the streets," the way gay libbers did fifteen years later, they would have found themselves locked up en masse on Lewd Vag charges, or worse.
		The experts were often willing to concede that homosexuals are not dangerous, and that they can even "make a contribution to society," but precious few granted that homosexuality is anything but a mental illness.
	www.gayhistory.com /rev2/words/homophile.htm (109 words)

	IDS: Gay liberation will not be televised (Opinion, 06/28/2001)
		When gay women founded the Daughters of Bilitis soon after, it was solely as a social group, not as an activist organization.
		By the 1960s, though, even timid Mattachine and the Daughters of Bilitis had altered the gay American landscape.
		Many of the people who flocked to GLF meetings in New York City, or who founded such groups elsewhere in the country, had little interest in larger radical politics, but such ideas had moved closer to most Americans' angle of vision than they were a few years earlier.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=5040 (751 words)

	Bilitis
		1955: Daughters of Bilitis is formed in San Francisco
		The collection of poems in ancient Greek was ascribed to a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, Bilitis, to whose 'life' Louÿs dedicated a small section of his book.
		The Songs of Bilitis, Les Chansons de Bilitis in French, was a forgery published in 1894 by Pierre Louÿs in Paris.
	www.jahsonic.com /Bilitis.html (266 words)

	The Way We Were - Bay Windows - Opinion / Columns
		We also highlight the 15th anniversary of Daughters of Bilitis in the calendar section.
		The Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis will celebrate its 15th anniversary on Sunday, January 27.
		The January 24, 1985 issue of Bay Windows features an interview with author Michael Bronski and a profile of the founder of the Ministry of the Homeless.
	www.baywindows.com /news/2005/04/07/OpinionColumns/The-Way.We.Were-913418.shtml (965 words)

	The 1960s gay movement of San Francisco
		The debate was bitter and relations between Daughters of Bilitis and the men's groups were strained in the following years.
		The proposal drew immediate criticism from the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis.
		These groups felt that such a document, even for discussion purposes, took a demanding attitude towards society.
	www.shapingsf.org /ezine/gay/files/60s.html (571 words)

	2004 Festival
		From the founding of the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955 to their continued political work regarding the needs of older lesbians, JEB’s portrait reveals Del and Phyllis as active, unapologetic, and unstoppable activists.
		This inspiring documentary chronicles the story of the founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first public organization for lesbians in the United States.
	www.reelidentities.org /2004/schedule/Sunday (1096 words)

	Calendar
		The 2003 film is a documentary about Martin and Lyon, founders of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first lesbian civil rights organization in the United States.
		The screening kicks off a year-long celebration by Gerber/Hart of the 50th anniversary of the DOB.
		Gerber/Hart celebrates Women's History Month with a screening of the film "No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon" on Saturday, March 19, at 4:00 pm.
	www.edgewater.org /cgi-shl/calendar.pl?view=Event&event_id=1649 (71 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Gittings, Barbara
		It was at a Daughters of Bilitis picnic in 1961 that Gittings met Kay Lahusen, herself an activist.
		Having traveled to California in 1956 to visit ONE's office, she also heard about the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) and attended her first meeting, where she made the acquaintance of the society's founders, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
		In addition to being instrumental in having homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders, she founded the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis and edited its magazine, The Ladder.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/gittings_b.html (808 words)

	Gay Liberation Movement
		The Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis were generally benign, certainly the Stonewall Riots produced the massive thrust of the gay activism, yet Stonewall is a mere iconic martyr for the movement.
		By December 1971 Daughters of Bilitis-New York was co-opted by the Gay Activist Alliance’s Woman’s Subcommittee.
		With the National Daughters of Bilitis closed down, it seemed apparent that it was only a matter of time before Daughters of Bilitis-New York would cease.
	foxhollow_20.tripod.com /glm.html (5326 words)

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