Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005)
Release Date
2005-06-18
Rating
4
Duration
57 min
Countries
Keywords
police brutality san francisco california drag queen diner civil rights riot oppression lgbt woman director trans woman transgender rights tenderloin district gay rights american history trans women
Qualities
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
