
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
2005
56 min
movie
4.9/ 10
Overview
Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States--a 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.