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Del Martin (1921 - 2008)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Del Martin August 27, 2008 Associated Press, by LISA LEFF: Del Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who with her lifelong partner became a symbol for the movement to legalize gay marriage, died Wednesday morning. (August 27, 2008) She was 87. Martin died at a San Francisco hospital two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated her existing health problems, according to Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Her partner of more than 55 years and wife of just over two months, Phyllis Lyon, was with her. "Ever since I met Del 55 years ago, I could never imagine a day would come when she wouldn't be by my side," Lyon, 83, said in a statement Wednesday. "I also never imagined there would be a day that we would actually be able to get married," she added...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).