Vanguard Magazine
Vanguard, volume 2, [number 1?]
San Francisco: Vanguard, Inc., 1967
The Library has one issue of Vanguard, a late 1960s magazine published by a collective of activists and homeless youth in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. The magazine was focused on subjects like dealing with police harassment and locating medical clinics, and also gleefully disregarded any possible taboos in the writing and art it published.
The people involved with publishing the magazine were affiliated with several Christian organizations, and this issue goes particularly deep into Christian hippie spiritualism. The cover illustration shown here is less erotic than many of the images and text inside the issue; among the articles is a lengthy treatise against the concept of obscenity.
Holding Division: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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