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Vanguard 1966 Street Sweep photographs
2021-21
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Title: Vanguard 1966 Street Sweep photographs
Dates: 1966
Collection Number: 2021-21
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Extent: 1 folder of photographs
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Photographs of Vanguard's 1966 Street Sweep demonstration in San Francisco. Vanguard was an organization of LGBTQ youth and
others living on the streets of the Tenderloin district in San Francisco. The Street Sweep was organized to demonstrate their
commitment to the neighborhood and to protest ongoing police harassment.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Vanguard 1966 Street Sweep photographs . Collection Number: 2021-21. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Alexander Akin, January 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs of Vanguard's 1966 Street Sweep demonstration in San Francisco. Vanguard was an organization of LGBTQ youth and
others living on the streets of the Tenderloin district in San Francisco. The Street Sweep was organized to demonstrate their
commitment to the neighborhood and to protest ongoing police harassment.
Transgender people
Photography
Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.)
Gay men
Lesbians
Bisexual people
Vanguard