Before the Stonewall riots in New York and before Pride parades became a summer staple, there was a cup of coffee hurled in the Tenderloin. In the summer of 1966, a trans woman at Compton's Cafeteria ...

San Francisco’s Transgender History Month, observed in August for the past several years, often brings attention to the fact that an exact date of the 1966 riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. History comes alive, sometimes you don't just watch it, you step right into it. Actors Jaylyn Abergas and Mary Vice, from The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Stonewall, before the Black Cat protests, there was the Compton's Cafeteria riot. In August 1966 — the exact date is ...

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site ...

The Compton's Cafeteria Riot is an immersive production that places audiences inside a 1960s cafeteria during the 1966 uprising when transgender women and drag queens resisted police harassment in San ...

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August marks 59 years since the Compton's Cafeteria Riot took place in San Francisco's Tenderloin. On this anniversary, community members came together to recognize the riot's role in transgender and ...

Three years prior to the infamous Stonewall riots in New York City, San Francisco’s Tenderloin district saw its own queer uprising. While San Francisco was making strides in becoming a more ...

Years after the Watts Riots, the City of Compton became synonymous with poverty, street gangs and rampant violence. It has changed, too. But Friday is the opening day of the new film, Straight Outta ...