[not verified in body] Vanguard magazine, originally and later loosely affiliated with the organization, continued its spirit and was published through ;r Keith St. Clare.
[1] In the fall of 1965, Adrian Ravarour and Billy Garrison founded Vanguard, an LGBT gay liberation youth organization in the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco, California.
Seeing their conditions, Ravarour began organizing and asked the LGBT youth if they were willing to demonstrate for equal rights to end discrimination.
[citation needed] Since Ravarour was a staff member of Intersection for the Arts, he asked its director Reverend Laird Sutton for the use of the venue.
Sutton recalled that Ravarour asked about "using Intersection as a meeting place for a proposed new organization of LGBT youth of the Tenderloin ...
I knew that the proposal which Adrian and Billy had while having great merit was not directly in keeping with the purpose of Intersection ... therefore I said no ... but urged them to take it to Glide.
[citation needed] To unify the group, Ravarour taught philosophical and historical principles of their rights to equality, including the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Decades later, Rev.
Larry Mamiya recalled in his Memoir: Vanguard was the first group of largely gay young people in the nation organized by Adrian Ravarour (later the Rev.
[4]During the first ten months of Vanguard, from fall 1965 to spring 1966, its prominent members were Juan Elorreaga, Dixie Russo, Billy Garrison, Joel Williams, and January Ferguson.
Mamiya was appointed Glide's first advisor to Vanguard, which was overseen by Ministers Louis Durham, Vaughn Smith, and Cecil Williams.
Mamiya witnessed numerous times that Ravarour was "called the founder of Vanguard by the DJ at the dances and JP and the kids."[6][importance?]
[citation needed] In January 1967, Vanguard was granted non-profit status and its incorporation papers arrived, so Glide attempted to revive the organization.