Happy LGBTQ History Month! Compton's Cafeteria was one of San Francisco's better known trans/queer hangouts in the hardscrabble Tenderloin neighborhood (which was the Gayborhood before the Castro District became popular). In 1966, 3 years before Stonewall, groups of trans women, drag queens and sweater queens (femmy gay boys) were hassled by cops and fought back turning into a full scale riot. The event led to a liberalizing of the public policies about cross dressing (which was illegal) and a slight improvement in interactions with police. An excellent documentary about this event called "Screaming Queens" is available on YouTube.
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