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Compton’s Cafeteria riot: The trans-led protest that paved the way for Stonewall

The queens had finally had enough: In August 1966 — 54 years ago this month —transgender and gender-nonconforming customers at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria stood up to years of abusive, discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.  The all-night restaurant in the city’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood was an unwilling haven for queer residents, and after its […]

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