Edited sentence: , the National Organization for Women (NOW) illustrates the strong influence of radical feminism.Another member, Florynce Kennedy represented Solanas at her trial.By 1968, the New York chapter lost many members who saw NOW as too mainstream.By 1971, all married women were excluded from the breakaway group and Atkinson had also defected.By 1992 Olga Vives, chair of the NOW's national lesbian rights taskforce estimated that 40 percent of NOW members were lesbians.Created in 1966 with Betty Friedan as president, the organization's name was deliberately chosen to say for women, and not of women.Friedan denounced the lesbian radicals as the Lavender Menace and tried to distance NOW from lesbian activities and issues.However NOW remains open to male members in contrast to some groups.One of the largest, earliest and most influential feminist organizations in the U.Solanas had shot Andy Warhol after writing the SCUM manifesto, seen by many as a passionately anti-male tract calling for the extermination of men.The radicals accused her of homophobia.There was a constant fight for control of NOW which eventually Friedan lost.There was constant friction, most notably over the defense of Valerie Solanas.Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of NOW described her as, "the first outstanding champion of women's rights".Within a year of the split, the new group limited the number of women members who live with men to 1/3 of the group's membership