“One night, a police officer tried to arrest one of Compton’s trans patrons on some charge or other, and she responded by throwing hot coffee in his face.”
“We were tired of being arrested for nothing,” Felicia “ Flames” Elizondo, a trans woman who lived in SF at the time, said in 2018. #Pride
<p>All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.</p>
The mural commemorates “Gene Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in August 1966, when transgender and gender-nonconforming patrons fought back against years of police harassment. The event is considered among the first significant LGBTQ uprisings, predating New York’s better-known Stonewall Riots in 1969.”
Seven artists transform a Tenderloin garage into a celebration of LGBTQ history for the Transgender District’s first exterior mural.
