Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”

Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth organization in the United States, which had been organized earlier that year with the help of radical ministers working with Glide Memorial Church, a center for progressive social activism in the Tenderloin for many years. A lesbian group of street people was also formed called the Street Orphans. Here’s some 1960s-era Vanguard memorabilia from the Transgender Archive in Houston: 1960s Vanguard Flier: Front Vanguard 203 Clayton ST. 221-7731 1960s Vanguard Flier: Back conceive a man, should he have any thing would give a little more than it away (his autumn’s winter being summer’s spring Who moved by standing in november’s may.) from whose (if loud most howish time derange the silent whys of such a death-

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