Today's Trans March Honors Compton's Cafeteria Riot

[Shana A]

Today's Trans March Honors Compton's Cafeteria Riot

http://sfist.com/2011/06/24/todays_trans_march_honors_comptons.php

This afternoon's Trans March starts at 3:30 in heavily segregated Dolores Park. This year's annual transgender march should take on an even feistier tone. On Thursday, a San Francisco Superior Court Judge dismissed felony hate crime charges brought against two men accused of assaulting a 20-year-old transgender woman at the 16th and Mission BART Plaza back in April. (District Attorney Gascón, we should point out, was "extremely disappointed" by the judge's ruling. He intends to refile felony hate crime charges in the case.)

Today's march will also honor the 45th anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria riot that went down in the Tenderloin after police officers tried to arrest a trans women. Wikipedia describes it thusly:

[gennee]

I hope the march will go well.                                                                                                    Gennee

[gennee]

The Compton Cafeteria Riots were an important watermark in transgender history. The more I read about it, the more it fascinates me. The Dewey Lunch Counter Sit-in in 1965 was even more so.                                                                                                                                  Gennee

[Korlee]

I never really thought about us having a history.