The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was founded in San Francisco in 1955 by four lesbian couples (including Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon) and was the first national lesbian political and social organization in the United States
The Daughters of Bilitis
Spring Fire
“Spring Fire,” the first lesbian paperback novel, and the beginning of the lesbian pulp fiction genre, was published in 1952 and sold 1.5 million copies. It was written by lesbian Marijane Meaker under the false name Vin Packer and ended unhappily.
Vice Versa
In 1947 it was the first lesbian-interest publication in the United States.
1939 Autobiography
Frances V. Rummell, an educator and a teacher of French at Stephens College, published an autobiography under the title Diana: A Strange Autobiography; it was the first explicitly lesbian autobiography in which two women end up happily together.[ This autobiography was published with a note saying, “The publishers wish it expressly understood that this is a true story, the first of its kind ever offered to the general reading public”
Mona’s 440 Club
1936 it was the first lesbian gay bar in America, opened in San Francisco. Mona‘s waitresses and female performers wore tuxedos and patrons dressed their roles.
1931 Was Big
In Berlin, Dora Richter, born as Rudolph Richter, is the first known transgender woman to undergo vaginoplasty.
Mädchen in Uniform is released and is the first film with a pro-lesbian story.
The Year was 1924
Society for Human Rights – First gay rights organization in the United States (West Third). Published Friendship and Freedom, the first American gay publication.
This was also when the first issue of Die Freundin (the girlfriend) appears; it was the first Lesbian magazine worldwide.
On A Grey Thread
In 1923 Lesbian Elsa Gidlow, born in England, published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, titled “On A Grey Thread.”
We’re not alone!
7.3 percent of people born between 1980 and 1998 who now identify as
LGBTQQIP2SAA+—up from 5.8 percent in 2012. (This new data reinforces a 2015 conclusion from the Public Religion Research Institute that “7 percent of millennials identify either as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender,” based on a survey of 2,000 adults.) It’s uncertain if this data take in account for the 2.7% of millennials who identify as genderqueer, gender-fluid or unsure of their gender identification.