Daughters of Bilitis

Dates:

founded in 1955

About Daughters of Bilitis:

The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was founded in 1955 in San Francisco as an organization for lesbians to meet other lesbians in a respectable setting (i.e. not bars). The Daughters of Bilitis worked for acceptance of lesbians as respectable citizens of society.The organization was named for a book of poetry by Pierre Louys, Songs of Bilitis, which included poems about love between women.

Publication:

The Ladder

Print Bibliography:

Alice Echols and Ellen Willis. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. 1990.