City of Night.In 1966, a group of trans women in San Francisco fought back against police inside Compton’s Cafeteria, a 24-hour restaurant popular with queer folks in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
As officers began to verbally and physically harass its LGBTQ+ patrons, one very fed-up trans woman threw a cup of coffee at a policeman’s head, sparking a riot led largely by trans women and drag queens.According to Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman’s documentary film Screaming Queens (2005), the riot ended with several queer people being taken into custody — only after a police car was destroyed, a newsstand was set ablaze, and numerous tables and windows were smashed.In 1967, the Black Cat Tavern, a queer bar in the Silver Lake neighborhood of.