The first "gay" riot was launched by sex workers. ›

sistahmamaqueen:

this-spaceship:

“In August 1966, the hustlers, queens and street kids who gathered at Compton’s Cafeteria for an afterhours meal in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, revolted when the vice squad tried to arrest one of them. Throwing dinner plates at the police, smashing windows, burning down a newsstand and later picketing against management’s decision to refuse service to drag queens, this first “gay” riot was launched by sex workers.”

Yet another reason why we should be in solidarity with each other!

yes hunty!! get that hystry!!! 

Burning down a newsstand sounds like a really shitty and unnecessary action and I’m not sure why anyone’s supposed to be happy about this.

(via likeawraith)

9 months ago on August 07, 2011 at 03:25am
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  1. okapidreams reblogged this from strugglingtobeheard
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  3. sterlinglovely reblogged this from adailyriot and added:
    Yet another reason why we should be in solidarity with each other!
  4. epiphaniesatthetparty reblogged this from tranqualizer
  5. strontiumgirlcommando reblogged this from so-treu and added:
    Yes Yes and yes another reason where moral questions (is it morally correct or incorrect to be a sex worker?) are...
  6. parisisfashun reblogged this from so-treu
  7. so-treu reblogged this from adailyriot
  8. pansycoredistro reblogged this from hoaxzine
  9. mothsinamoshpit reblogged this from likeawraith and added:
    Burning down a newsstand sounds like a really shitty and unnecessary action and I’m not sure why anyone’s supposed to be...
  10. flaneries reblogged this from funkyfest and added:
    i first heard about the compton’s cafeteria riot when we watched Screaming Queens (2005, Susan Stryker) in one of my...
  11. titotibok reblogged this from tranqualizer and added:
    Compton’s Cafeteria in SF happened in 1966 way before the more institutionally recognized (I say this cuz the...
  12. littlegrenades reblogged this from bohemianarthouse
  13. sointersectional reblogged this from ndelphinus and added:
    I didn’t really know about this before I took an LGBT history class. It’s really sad that almost nobody knows about it...
  14. farahjoon reblogged this from funkyfest
  15. ndelphinus reblogged this from jesuswasacommunist and added:
    This is one of those I learned about growing up in San Francisco, but very few people outside the city remember....
  16. jesuswasacommunist reblogged this from adailyriot