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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

2005 · Movie · 56 min

5.5(6)unSUB Rating

Documentary

Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States--a 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.

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Details
Years
2005
Release date
2005-06-18
Language
English
Runtime
56 min
TMDB rating (input)
4.2/10 (6 votes)

Themes

  • police brutality
  • san francisco, california
  • drag queen
  • diner
  • civil rights
  • riot
  • oppression
  • lgbt
  • woman director
  • trans woman
  • transgender rights
  • tenderloin district
  • +3 more

Cast & crew

  • Susan Stryker

    Susan Stryker

    as Herself / Narrator

  • Aleshia Brevard

    Aleshia Brevard

    as Herself

  • TC

    Tamara Ching

    as Herself

  • FE

    Felicia Elizondo

    as Herself

  • AJ

    Amanda St. Jaymes

    as Herself

  • SC

    Suzan Cooke

    as Herself

  • EH

    Ed Hansen

    as Himself

Directed by Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman