Remembering Our History

[Shana A]

Remembering Our History
Natasha Yar-Routh

http://genderqueerview.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-our-history.html

By now even the dimmest theotard has heard of the Stonewall Riots but how many remember that three years earlier there were the Compton's Cafeteria Riot?

In 1966 in California it was illegal to cross dress, having buttons on the wrong side of your shirt could get you arrested. On a hot August night in San Francisco's Tenderloin district the police were doing a routine sweep to harass trans-women, hustlers, gays and lesbians when one woman in Compton's Cafeteria refused to go quietly and threw her coffee in the cops face. One thoroughly trashed cafeteria, one wrecked cop car and nine nights of picketing latter and things had changed permanently in San Francisco. To quote from glbtq.com ;

[tekla]

Well there is a plaque there on that corner, and Susan Striker (PHd. History, Stanford) who made movie about it sure do.  Self serving nonsense.