Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria

Year: 2005

Runtime: 57 mins

Language: English

Director: Victor Silverman

Documentary

The first major uprising against police brutality and societal oppression occurred not at Stonewall in 1969 but three years earlier at San Francisco’s Compton’s Cafeteria. Trans women and gay men led the resistance. Nearly four decades later, historians Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman recount this overlooked event in American civil‑rights history.

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