Del Martin, a pioneering lesbian activist and journalist who made history in 2004 when she and her longtime partner, Phyllis Lyon, were the first same-sex couple to marry in San Francisco, died Wednesday, August 27 at the University of California at San Francisco's Hospice with Lyon by her side.
Martin, who was born Dorothy Taliaferro on May 5, 1921, in San Francisco, was 87.
The cause of her death has yet to be determined. According to friends, Martin broke her arm about a week ago and had been in the hospital's palliative care unit.
The women had remarried on June 16 this summer after spending 55 years together.
(See Thursday's Bay Area Reporter for more on the life of Del Martin.)