The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was formed in 1955 in San Francisco, California in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and a group of women.

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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was formed in San Francisco, California in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon along with six other women. The author Marion Zimmer Bradley was a member of the group in the 1950s. The group was conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which were considered illegal and thus subject to raids and police harassment. Lyon and Martin claim that they had no knowledge of the male-oriented homophile groups, such as the Mattachine Society, when they first established the organization in 1955. ... The regular DOB publication was called The Ladder, started in 1956 with the help of ONE, Inc. and the Mattachine Society, with whom the DOB retained friendly relations. In 1970 the

mailing-lists and production facilities for The Ladder were secretly seized and relocated by separatist feminists, and as a consequence the magazine ceased publication in 1972. The name of the journal refers to Plato's pedagogic hierarchy, "the ladder of beauty".

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