The first "gay" riot was launched by sex workers.
“In August 1966, the hustlers, queens and street kids who gathered at Compton’s Cafeteria for an afterhours meal in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, revolted when the vice squad tried to arrest one of them. Throwing dinner plates at the police, smashing windows, burning down a newsstand and later picketing against management’s decision to refuse service to drag queens, this first “gay” riot was launched by sex workers.”
Yet another reason why we should be in solidarity with each other!
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Yet another reason why we should be in solidarity with each other!
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Yes Yes and yes another reason where moral questions (is it morally correct or incorrect to be a sex worker?) are...
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Burning down a newsstand sounds like a really shitty and unnecessary action and I’m not sure why anyone’s supposed to be...
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i first heard about the compton’s cafeteria riot when we watched Screaming Queens (2005, Susan Stryker) in one of my...
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Compton’s Cafeteria in SF happened in 1966 way before the more institutionally recognized (I say this cuz the...
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I didn’t really know about this before I took an LGBT history class. It’s really sad that almost nobody knows about it...
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This is one of those I learned about growing up in San Francisco, but very few people outside the city remember....
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