The big TransMarch event was today. The event is scheduled every year just before the big Pride weekend. It consists of a huge rally in Dolores Park followed by a march downtown over major streets to the site of the Comptons Cafeteria riot 51 years ago.
The Cafeteria was a hangout for drag performers, trans sex workers, and the small trans community. That riot, three years before Stonewall, was started when a transgender woman, tired of being harassed by police for the horrible crime of being her authentic self, lobbed a coffee cup at the cops.
The area around the former Comptons Cafeteria is the first historical district in the country dedicated to trans history.
We marched in memory of that riot, and to protest attempts to turn back the clock and force us back into the closet.
There was a large crowd in the park that grew into the afternoon.
At 6 PM we firmed up and started the march.
The march proceeded down Market st into the heart of San Francisco.
Marchers packed Taylor St from Turk at the old Cafeteria site back to Market.
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