Different Daughters

A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement

by Marcia M. Gallo

2007 274 pages eng

Nearly fifteen years before the Stonewall Rebellion and the birth of gay liberation came the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Like its predominantly gay male counterparts, the Mattachine Society and ONE, Inc., DOB was launched in response to the oppressive antihomosexual climate of the McCarthy era, when…