Washington Blade interviews Phyllis Lyon
by: Pam Spaulding
Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 19:00:00 PM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7019There's a great teaser of an interview with the widow of legendary activist Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, by Amy Cavenaugh at the Wash Blade:
But the 83-year-old widow said she's "doing all right" despite Martin's death Aug. 27, in part because she has "an awful lot of friends around" and has received "incredible" support.
"I've gotten cards from people we knew, and then some from people we didn't know from anywhere," she said. "This response just goes to show that there were a whole lot of people who knew about her even if they didn't know her."
In her first interview since Martin's death, Lyon talked exclusively with the Washington Blade about her 55 years with Martin, from their 1950 meeting in Seattle to their 2004 wedding in San Francisco.
