Betty Friedan’s antilesbian sentiments were so present in NOW that a group of lesbians, including Karla Jay and Rita Mae Brown, formed the Lavender Menace, a guerilla action group. They confronted NOW’s members at its Second Congress to Unite Women in May 1970, where they passed out their manifesto, “The Woman-Identified Woman.” A year later, NOW passed a resolution affirming that lesbian rights were “a legitimate concern for feminism.”
