Three years before the Stonewall riots in New York City, San Francisco’s Tenderloin District had the first but little known riot between police and of transgender women, drag queens, gay clientele, and neighborhood activists. Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, a 2005 documentary by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman depicts the forgotten 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot when transgendered women and gay sex workers resisted police harassment, a catalyst for the larger Gay Rights movement.
Susan Stryker earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, and later held a Ford Foundation post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University. She currently works at Indiana University in Bloomington as a professor of Gender Studies.
Victor Silverman earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and is currently a faculty member in History at Pomona College.
Vimeo carries a 25 minute segment.
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Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria on Vimeo.
Susan Stryker earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, and later held a Ford Foundation post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University. She currently works at Indiana University in Bloomington as a professor of Gender Studies.
Victor Silverman earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and is currently a faculty member in History at Pomona College.
Vimeo carries a 25 minute segment.
(NOTE: This embedded link to Vimeo seems to works only in IE and Chrome. It does not work in Firefox.)
Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria on Vimeo.
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