Lyon-Martin House Oral Histories, 2022-2023

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Summary

Title:
Lyon-Martin House oral histories
Dates:
2022-2023
Creators:
Lyon-Martin House Oral History Project
Abstract:
Extent:
3.32 GB
Language:
Preferred citation:

Lyon-Martin House oral histories. GLBT Historical Society

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Shayne Watson, Director, Friends of Lyon-Martin House, March 2023.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:
2022-2023
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

Lyon-Martin House oral histories. GLBT Historical Society

Location of this collection:
989 Market Street, Lower Level
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Contact:
(415) 777-5455
reference@glbthistory.org
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