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Title: Lyon-Martin House oral histories
Dates: 2022-2023
Collection Number: 2023-52
Creator/Collector:
Lyon-Martin House Oral History Project
Extent: 3.32 GB
Online items available
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection includes oral history recordings and supplemental material for the Lyon-Martin House Oral History Project.
Interviewees include: Kendra Mon, Pauline Shulman, Diane McCarney, Kate Kendell, Marcia Gallo, and Margie Adam. This is a
born-digital collection and materials include: oral history video recordings (.mp4 file format), transcripts (.docx and .pdf
file formats), a photo of Phyllis Lyon and Marcia Gallo (.jpg file format), and a video tour of the Lyon-Martin House by Pauline
Shulman (.MOV file format). These materials were created by the Lyon-Martin Oral History Project in 2022 and 2023. Located
at 651 Duncan Street in San Francisco, the Lyon-Martin House is the former home of lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020)
and Del Martin (1921-2008). In 2021, the City of San Francisco designated the Lyon-Martin House a City Landmark in recognition
of its association, through Lyon and Martin, with the lesbian rights, homophile, and marriage equality movements. At the behest
of the Friends of Lyon-Martin House, a fiscally-sponsored project of the GLBT Historical Society, Sonoma State University
Professors Don Romesburg and Steve Estes designed an oral history project to document narrators’ memories of the Lyon-Martin
House as a social and activist space, as well as of Lyon and Martin. Sonoma State University students Carla Campbell and Keilina
Heinz conducted the interviews.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Lyon-Martin House oral histories. Collection Number: 2023-52. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Shayne Watson, Director, Friends of Lyon-Martin House, March 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes oral history recordings and supplemental material for the Lyon-Martin House Oral History Project.
Interviewees include: Kendra Mon, Pauline Shulman, Diane McCarney, Kate Kendell, Marcia Gallo, and Margie Adams. This is a
born-digital collection and materials include: oral history video recordings (.mp4 file format), transcripts (.docx and .pdf
file formats), a photo of Phyllis Lyon and Marcia Gallo (.jpg file format), and a video tour of the Lyon-Martin House by Pauline
Schulman (.MOV file format). These materials were created by the Lyon-Martin Oral History Project in 2022 and 2023. Located
at 651 Duncan Street in San Francisco, the Lyon-Martin House is the former home of lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020)
and Del Martin (1921-2008). In 2021, the City of San Francisco designated the Lyon-Martin House a City Landmark in recognition
of its association, through Lyon and Martin, with the lesbian rights, homophile, and marriage equality movements. At the behest
of the Friends of Lyon-Martin House, a fiscally-sponsored project of the GLBT Historical Society, Sonoma State University
Professors Don Romesburg and Steve Estes designed an oral history project to document narrators’ memories of the Lyon-Martin
House as a social and activist space, as well as of Lyon and Martin. Sonoma State University students Carla Campbell and Keilina
Heinz conducted the interviews.
LGBTQ
Lesbians
Homophile movement
Historic preservation
Marriage equality
Long-term relationships
Martin, Del
Lyon, Phyllis
Daughters of Bilitis
San Francisco (Calif.)
Oral histories