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.

3.32 GB

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.

Collection is open for research.