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V My Darling VanGuard… This is a Piece of Literature written in the mindset of rebellion… for oppression still reeks in the era I live. I fight and I come to you…my darling Vanguard because long ago… before I lived in the T.L. I lived in a place where the rebel who speaks to you now… was confined with no way to express so much of what I feel and deal being…solely who I am. No place but my own journals to express and release my torment. No street legends to speak of who stood up for something other than beauty and trendy clothes… Until I made a pilgrimage to San Francisco, and in the heart of the tenderloin I heard of “The Vanguard Boys” and what you stood for during your own era of oppression and rebellion… I read your words and heard your voices in the depths of my soul, and now I wish to give you mine…..to apart of what you started long ago. To see our hearts collide on paper… you make the rebel in me have meaning thank you… my darling vanguard. ---Gotti 2011 1 Vol 1 1966 Vol 1 1966 Editors Megan Rohrer Joey Plaster Contributions from the original Vanguard are courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Cover Art: Gotti 2011 Design: Megan Rohrer
This magazine resuscitates the history of the 1960s queer youth organization Vanguard and explores the ways in which its history is embodied in the present. Tenderloin street youth founded Vanguard in 1966. They protested police harassment, picketed discriminatory businesses, and held same-sex dances in church halls. They also produced a blunt and honest magazine about poverty and queer politics; drug use and sex work; isolation and loneliness; artistic expression; and faith and queer theology. Working with a variety of homeless youth services organizations, program coordinators Joey Plaster and Megan Rohrer presented the history of Vanguard to today’s queer youth. We then asked them to respond by submitting stories, art, and poetry “in conversation” with original 1960s essays, or touching on similar themes. This magazine presents their writings along with reprints from the Vanguard Magazine of the 1960s. These materials are supplemented with archival materials, a historical narrative, and writings from urban ministers and youth organizers. Working over a period of three months with a group of youth at Larkin Street Youth Services, we sought to create a magazine that spoke to their expressed desire to “enlighten youth, celebrate the queer history of the Tenderloin, and create a voice for the unheard.” Thank You 1:9 1967 The magazine is also part of a larger “Vanguard Revisited” project that meets Monday nights between Feb-June 2011, led by youth with the support of the San Francisco LGBT Center’s Youth Program and the Faithful Fools Street Minist ry. For more information, contact Youth Program Coordinator Beck, at (415) 865-5560 or Beck@sfcenter.org. Project Managers: Joey Plaster and the Rev. Megan Rohrer Site Coordinators: Beck, Peter Carpou and Debbie Neigher Advisers: Martin Meeker; Bernard Schlager; and Sharon Groves. Financial Support Provided By: Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries; The Carpenter Foundation; The San Francisco Foundation; The Horizon Foundation; San Francisco LGBT Community Center; The St. Francis Endowment of St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco; The Human Rights Campaign; The Rev. Megan Rohrer; and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Partner Organizations: GLBT Historical Society; Welcome; Larkin Street Youth Program; The San Francisco LGBT Community Center: Youth Services; TransThrive; and Roaddawgz. Special Thanks to: The New Vanguard Youth; Adrian Ravarou; Keith; Joel Roberts; the Rev. Larry Mamiya; the Rev. Chuck Lewis; Joanne Chadwick; Ink Works Press; Paul Boneberg; Rebekah Kim; Lauren Richards; Teddy Wallace; Paul VanDeCarr; Don Romesburg; Chris Carlsson; the Screaming Queens; Kate Grzeca; Aimee Forster; Cecilia Chung; Felicia Elizondo; and Chelsea Ross. 2 http://vanguardrevisited.blogspot.com
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