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Phyllis Lyon, LGBTIQ+ icon, face of same-sex marriage in the US, dies at 95

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Phyllis Lyon, pioneering civil rights activist and LGBTIQ+ icon, who along with her partner of over five decades Del Martin became the face of the fight for same sex marriage rights in the United State, died at her San Francisco home on Thursday.

She was 95 and died of natural cases, media reports said. Martin had died at the age of 87 in August 2008, two months after she and Lyon became the first same sex couple to legally marry in San Francisco.

The couple had first married on February 12, 2004, when then San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

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