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The Lyon-Martin House Oral History Project

Don Romesburg

Professors Don Romesburg and Steve Estes, in collaboration with two SSU students through a special studies (WGS/HIST 495) course in Fall 2022, will conduct, transcript, and archive a series of 6-8 oral histories related to the historic preservation of the longtime San Francisco house of lesbian icons and heroes Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Martin and Lyon founded the first US lesbian political organization in the 1950s and after a life of activism went on to become the first same-sex couple to marry in California.

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