The Corner of Turk and Taylor: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot (August 1966) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, the transgender uprising that happened three years before Stonewall, on a hot August night in 1966, at the corner of Turk and Taylor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.
Gene Compton's Cafeteria was a 24-hour diner at 101 Taylor Street, open since the mid-1950s, and for the transgender women, drag performers, hustlers and street kids of the Tenderloin it was the one place in the city that stayed lit all night. "Everybody that lived in the Tenderloin ate at Compton's," remembered Amanda St. Jaymes. But female impersonation was…
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