History comes alive, sometimes you don't just watch it, you step right into it. Actors Jaylyn Abergas and Mary Vice, from The ...

Fuse Theatre Ensemble will present Mikki Gillette's Riot Queens. The play dramatizes the Compton's Cafeteria Riots, a trans woman-led, anti-police uprising in San Francisco that predates Stonewall by ...

August marks 59 years since the Compton's Cafeteria Riot took place in San Francisco's Tenderloin. On this anniversary, community members came together to recognize the riot's role in transgender and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Stonewall, before the Black Cat protests, there was the Compton’s Cafeteria riot. In August 1966 — the exact date is ...

San Francisco’s Transgender History Month, observed in August for the past several years, often brings attention to the fact that an exact date of the 1966 riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the ...

In San Francisco Wednesday, the fight to preserve an important site in the LGBTQ civil rights movement moved a step closer to reality. A group presented a proposal to the San Francisco Historic ...

The Tenderloin Museum will resume performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, its immersive theatrical production exploring a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Performances will begin January 16, ...

The San Francisco Board of Appeals declined to overturn a determination allowing a halfway house to operate at the site of the historic Compton’s Cafeteria riot in the Tenderloin. The site was added ...

The gay, bisexual and transgender people who called the neighborhood home and police, who harassed the LGBTQ community and wanted to keep its members off the streets. While the Stonewall riots in New ...

Nearly 100 transgender activists and allies turned out in the Tenderloin on Thursday, June 22, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1966 riot at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. Among the celebrants ...