LGBTQ rights leader and icon Phyllis Lyon has died. (Photo courtesy of the National Center for Lesbian Rights)

Members of the LGBTQ community are mourning the passing of Phyllis Lyon, an iconic leader in the equality movement who broke barriers as a member of the first same-sex couple to be married in the state of California.

Lyon, 95, died April 9 in San Francisco from natural causes, officials with the National Center for Lesbian Rights said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.