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Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Tuesday, you'll get the question. Thursday, you'll get a hint. And today, you'll get the answer.

This week's question is: What was the name of the first lesbian rights organization in the United States?

This week's answer is: The Daughters of Bilitis. The organization was named after a lesbian character in an 1894 book of poetry, The Songs of Bilitis, by Frenchman Pierre Louÿs. Louÿs claimed the poems were works by Bilitis, a lover of Sappho, and that he had discovered and translated them, but Bilitis was actually a character he invented. The book became a classic of lesbian erotica nonetheless.

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