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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 52, December 11, 2005, Article 19
  

  SAN FRANCISCO MAY NAME STREET AFTER "WIDOW NORTON"
  

  The legacy of Emperor Norton lives on in San Francisco,
  and gets stranger and stranger. A modern successor to
  Norton's eccentric ways may soon have a street named
  after him. According to a December 8 report in the
  Bay Area Reporter, "Jose Sarria, the first out gay man
  to run for public office in California and founder of
  the Imperial Court system, could see a San Francisco
  street named after him under a proposal by Supervisor
  Bevan Dufty."
  

  "Sarria is a longtime champion of gay rights and
  fundraiser for the LGBT community. He ran for city
  supervisor in 1961 and founded the Imperial Court
  System over 40 years ago in 1964 when he took on the
  title of Empress Jose I.
  

  He later assumed the title of the Widow Norton after
  the 19th century San Francisco eccentric Joshua Norton,
  who proclaimed himself "Emperor of North America and
  Protector of Mexico" and printed his own money. Each
  year Sarria leads a processional to Norton's grave
  in Colma, in tribute to him as well as those Imperial
  Court members who have died of AIDS."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n52a19.html

Data di pubblicazione

• 2005-12-11

Volume

• 8

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