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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian social group founded in San Francisco in 1955 by Del Martin, her lover Phyllis Lyon, and three other lesbian couples, as an alternative to the lesbian bar scene.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. Formed in San Francisco in 1955, the DOB was conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which at that time were subject to raids and police harassment.
Eventually, however, politics began to take up more and more time at meetings. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. After a few months, the group rejected the increasing radicalisation of its American counterpart, and renamed itself the Australasian Lesbian Movement.
Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) - first lesbian organization DOB was not formed in a political vacuum.
The Daughters of Bilitis was a social and activist group founded in 1955.
. Duberman, Martin. It arose in the midst of militant struggles against racism and for women’s liberation.
Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) oli Yhdysvaltojen ensimmäinen kansallisella tasolla toiminut lesbojen etujärjestö, ja ensimmäisiä lesbojärjestöjä missään päin maailmaa.Se perustettiin San Franciscossa vuonna 1955. In 1968 Rita Laporte became DOB president, and Barbara Grier became the editor of The Ladder. 1, 1996, pp. DOB's emphasis on respectability mirrored the inclusive rhetoric of their brothers in the Mattachine Society, but alienated lesbians who did not share DOB's middle-class political and sexual sensibilities. Stonewall.
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America.
69–91. The organization, formed in San Francisco in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, was created to be another hangout area for lesbians other than lesbian bars. Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus, eds. The Ladder frowned on butch-femme roles as derivative and unladylike, and advocated traditional feminine dress and manners. The Daughters of Bilitis /bɪˈliːtɪs/, also called the DOB or the Daughters, was the first[1] lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States. Lucy Chesser, "Australasian Lesbian Movement, ‘Claudia’s Group’ and Lynx: ‘Non-Political Lesbian Organisation in Melbourne, 1969-1980”, Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, vol. During the 1950s, DOB emphasized the similarity between lesbians and heterosexuals, arguing that most lesbians were not barhopping, sex-crazed deviates, but rather sober, hard-working, respectable women.
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It later gave support to women who were afraid to come out.
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The Daughters of Bilitis was established when eight women (in four couples) came together to form a social club, which eventually grew to hold regular meetings with chapters across the country. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture Society History. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture Society History. Sometimes referred to simply as DOB, the Daughters of Bilitis was the first lesbian civil and political rights organisation in the United States.
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