Few San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area still called “The Tenderloin”—a name which ...
In the before times, Donna Personna said, “there was no history.” The activist, former Cockette and current Aunt Charlie’s performer recalled how, at the height of the AIDS crisis, she was part of ...
San Francisco celebrates Transgender Day of Visibility - one ensured by Tenderloin Museum and the Transgender District.
The commemorative sidewalk plaque had been installed in front of 101 Taylor Street where one night in August 1966 a drag queen patron of Gene Compton's Cafeteria got into an altercation with a police ...
She is former Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, co-director of the Emmy-winning film "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," and co-editor of the ...
On an unknown date in August 1966, trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. There was no news coverage, and the arrest records ...
Today, the same transgender women of color have been priced out of the Compton’s Cafeteria neighborhood, which begs the question, “What does it mean to commemorate LGBTQ spaces in a ...
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