Saturday, January 16, 2010

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria, directed by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker

Silverman, Victor, & Stryker, Susan. (Directors). (2005). Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. United States: Independent Television Service, KQED, Frameline. 57 minutes.

Erik has a copy. Also available at the SF Public Library. From the catalog description: "Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States — a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn."

No comments: