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Screaming queens the riot at Compton's Cafeteria

Screaming queens the riot at Compton's Cafeteria

DVD 2009

Presented is the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States, which was a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Gay liberation movement United States History 20th century
Riots California San Francisco
Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.) History 20th century
Transgender people United States History 20th century
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Edition:
Standard format
Description:
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Other Title:
Screaming queens, the riot at Compton's Cafeteria [DVD]
Notes:
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2005
Director of photography, Sophie Constantinou ; editor, Laurie Schmidt ; music, Heikki Koskinen
DVD-R ; NTSC, region 1 ; single layer
In English
Control Number:
1891120
UPC:
885444141195
Other Authors:
Constantinou, Sophia
Frameline (Firm)
Independent Television Service
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Koskinen, Heikki
Schmidt, Laurie
Silverman, Victor, 1957-
Stryker, Susan
Walsh, Jack
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