Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen

They were partners in life and activism for 46 years. Gittings was known as the mother of the modern gay rights movement for her tireless work that included founding the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first US lesbian
rights organization, in 1958, editing its pioneering magazine, The Ladder, between 1963 and 1966, leading the first gay caucus of a national professional organization, the American Library Association, and creating the first widely distributed
bibliography of gay-positive books, helping convince the American Psychiatric Association that homosexuality was not a mental illness.