. It was the site of the Compton Cafeteria Riots of 1966, one of the very first LGBTQ protests in US history.
This area is home to one of the city’s oldest gay bars, Aunt Charlie’s, various art spaces, like Counterpulse and PianoFight, gathering sites, and hotels with cultural significance to the trans community.
Though many members of the LGBTQ community have moved, the neighborhood still houses a very large trans population.In fact, the Tenderloin has the densest population of transgender people in the US, with an ongoing, documented presence of trans residents since as early as the 1920s.