Film: Screaming Queens

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To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot and Trans History Month, TurkxTaylor Initiative presents a screening of the Emmy-winning documentary, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, co-directed by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman. The film tells the then-little-known story of the first well-documented trans and queer uprising against police violence in the United States—a 1966 riot in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous Stonewall Riots.