Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria - Film Screening and then a filmmaker and community panel with Co-Director Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Community Activist Cecilia Chung, and Transgender District Representative Gabby Burgos-Colón.

About the Film:  Emmy Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to street queens, cops, and activist civil rights ministers who recall the riot and paint a vivid portrait of the wild transgender scene in 1960s San Francisco. Integrating the riot's story into the broader fabric of American life, the documentary connects the event to urban renewal, anti-war activism, civil rights, and sexual liberation. With enticing archival footage and period music, this unknown story is dramatically brought back to life.