Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:The New Yorker
Compton's '22
DirectorDrew de Pinto
17 minDocumentary
Plot
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 no longer exist. Decades later, historians Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman unearthed the history of the riot and interviewed the surviving “Compton’s queens.”
