Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria

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Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria

Subject

feminist, queer, trans, queer history, documentary, woman filmmaker

Description

Gift from filmmaker. Victor was a colleague at the Claremont Colleges. We spoke often about his developing documentary practice. Susan is a friend and colleague. The documentary makes an important intervention into queer and trans history and film by introducing the organizing power and history of transpeople outside of NY and before Stonewall.

Date

2005

Abstract

EMMY Award-winning 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. (Kanopy)

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Citation

“Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed April 24, 2024, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/720.

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