Two San Francisco LGBTQ cultural districts are planning programs to commemorate a historic riot and pioneering trans activists at two events in August, which city officials say Mayor London Breed will declare as Transgender History Month.
The Transgender District is planning on holding a block party commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot at the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets.
That riot in 1966 was one of the first queer uprisings against police harassment and violence in American history, predating by three years the Stonewall riots in New York City that kickstarted the modern day LGBTQ liberation movement.