PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
For Immediate Release Media Contact:
Dawnne Woodie
415-748-2396, sf_dawnne@yahoo.com
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Commemoration Kick-Off
A Commemoration of the 40th Year Anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria Riots will be celebrated throughout the Bay Area in 2006. Three years before the famous rioting at New York’s Stonewall Inn, a group of transgender women and gay street-hustlers fought back for the first time in history against everyday police harassment. This was known as the Riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
A chronicle of this historic time in 1966 marks one beginning of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) movement resistance. It has been captured in a documentary made by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman, entitled ‘Screaming Queens’.
Please come support this kick-off event of Compton’s Cafeteria 40th Anniversary activities. It will include a showing of ‘Screaming Queens’. Come learn about this important time in LGBT history, and meet community leaders who are working to showcase this series of events and activities.
Date: March 23, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Metropolitan Community Church Sanctuary
Address: 150 Eureka
San Francisco, CA 94114
This event is free, but seating is limited to the first 250 attendees.
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Anniversary Activities are sponsored in part by Good Vibrations. For more information, please visit www.comptonscafeteriariot.org.
For Immediate Release Media Contact:
Dawnne Woodie
415-748-2396, sf_dawnne@yahoo.com
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Commemoration Kick-Off
A Commemoration of the 40th Year Anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria Riots will be celebrated throughout the Bay Area in 2006. Three years before the famous rioting at New York’s Stonewall Inn, a group of transgender women and gay street-hustlers fought back for the first time in history against everyday police harassment. This was known as the Riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
A chronicle of this historic time in 1966 marks one beginning of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) movement resistance. It has been captured in a documentary made by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman, entitled ‘Screaming Queens’.
Please come support this kick-off event of Compton’s Cafeteria 40th Anniversary activities. It will include a showing of ‘Screaming Queens’. Come learn about this important time in LGBT history, and meet community leaders who are working to showcase this series of events and activities.
Date: March 23, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Metropolitan Community Church Sanctuary
Address: 150 Eureka
San Francisco, CA 94114
This event is free, but seating is limited to the first 250 attendees.
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Anniversary Activities are sponsored in part by Good Vibrations. For more information, please visit www.comptonscafeteriariot.org.
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Re: Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Commemoration Kick-Off
Fri, March 17, 2006 - 10:34 PMHey Billie-Jean... thanks for posting this.
Funnily enough we're working on a song to commemorate the Compton Cafe Riot - though it it probably won't be finished / ready for the new CD. But it's great to see this largely forgotten event getting some recognition in our history...
I'm going to try and be there!
Tori
