Swan, Wallace

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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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creatorOf Wallace Swan correspondence, 1998-2011 University of Minnesota Libraries. Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
creatorOf Swan, Wallace K. Wallace K. Swan papers, 1964, 1975-1994. Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
referencedIn Northland Business Association (Minneapolis, Minn.). Association records, 1982-1988. Minnesota Historical Society Library
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Minnesota
Minnesota--Minneapolis
United States
Minneapolis (Minn.)
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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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Active 1964

Active 1994

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