Swan, Wallace

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Dates:
Active 1964
Active 1994

Biographical notes:

Wallace ("Wally") Swan was the first openly gay man to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Swan was elected in 1993 as a Commissioner to the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

From the guide to the Wallace Swan correspondence, 1998-2011, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies [scrbt])

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Subjects:

  • Electoral college
  • Gay activists
  • Gay couples
  • Gay liberation movement
  • Gay parents
  • Gay rights
  • Homosexuality
  • National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., 1987
  • Stonewall 25: International March on the United Nations to Affirm the Human Rights of Lesbian and Gay People, New York, N.Y., 1994
  • Unmarried couples

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Places:

  • Minnesota (as recorded)
  • Minnesota--Minneapolis (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Minneapolis (Minn.) (as recorded)