The Street Orphans were a gang of lesbian youth formed in Tenderloin, San Francisco.[1] They participated in the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in 1966,[2] and, along with the gay youth organization Vanguard, helped form San Francisco's chapters of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance.[2]
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- ^ Cohen, Stephen L. (2008). The Gay Liberation Youth Movement In New York: "An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail". New York: Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 9780415957991.
- ^ a b Members of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California. (1998). "MTF Transgender Activism in the Tenderloin and Beyond, 1966-1975. Commentary and Interview with Elliot Blackstone". GLQ. 2 (4): 363.