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http://foxsanantonio.com/news/nation-world/california-cities-proclaim-august-transgender-history-month-santa-clara-san-francisco
City of Santa Clara (@SantaClaraCity) ~ At the Aug. 16 City Council meeting, the City Council proclaimed the month of August Transgender History Month, honoring the 56th anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riots, and marking the beginning of transgender activism.
Read the FULL proclamation:
http://bit.ly/3wbAKNl
Okay, I was curious ... just what in the hell was the "Compton's Cafeteria Riot"??? So, I looked it up on Wikipedia ... even though Wikipedia is often pretty worthless. Here is what I found, there ...
Compton's Cafeteria was a chain of cafeterias owned by Gene Compton in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Tenderloin location of Compton's at 101 Taylor Street (at Turk) — open from 1954 to 1972 — was a popular meeting place for transgender people, especially trans women, to congregate publicly in the city. The cafeteria was more of a place to socialize than a restaurant. Compton's was one of the few places that they could meet, as many trans women were unwelcome in gay bars due to transphobia. Before the riot, the cafeteria was open all night, so trans people and drag queens could meet up after a long night of "hustling" (i.e. doing sex work).
In the 1960s the Compton's Cafeteria staff would frequently call the police on transgender customers. Management felt that they were loitering and causing them to lose business. In response, they implemented a service fee directed at transgender individuals and harassed them in an attempt to get them to leave the restaurant. It was common for the police to come into Compton's, arrest people for the crime of "female impersonation".
The Compton's Cafeteria riot began on an August night of 1966, the month directly following the July Vanguard picket. The exact date is unknown because there was no media coverage at the time and San Francisco's 1960s police records no longer exist. One of the riot's participants claimed that the riot occurred on a "hot" weekend night. A Compton's worker called the police claiming that some transgender customers became raucous. The police responded to the call and came to Compton's. When one of the cops grabbed and attempted to arrest a trans woman, she {not "she" ... more like an "it" ~ B.} threw a cup of coffee in his face. According to the director of Screaming Queens, Susan Stryker, the cafeteria "erupted." Patrons also said that they threw many items such as sugar shakers, tables, and diningware at the police and at the windows, causing them to shatter. They also hit the cops with their purses and high heels. In order to request backup, the police retreated into the streets, where the fighting continued. The protesters damaged a police car and burned down a sidewalk newsstand. The police responded by fighting back, and they tried to arrest the protesters and load them into paddy wagons. Elliott Blackstone, who was a part of the San Francisco police at the time of the riot, said that "there was unnecessary violence" from cops on the night of the Compton's Cafeteria riot.
The next day, more transgender people, hustlers, Tenderloin street people, and other members of the LGBT community returned to the cafeteria to picket because Compton's Cafeteria would not let them enter the establishment. The demonstration ended with the newly installed plate-glass windows being smashed again. Compton's Cafeteria business declined over the years after the riot, and it finally closed in 1972.
BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! How PATHETIC! This is something woketard Democrats want to "celebrate" ... a few transvestite freaks (who even the fags despised, by the way!) started a "food fight" in a cafeteria by throwing cups of coffee, plates, and sugar shakers ... and swinging their purses and high heels at the cops???!!! BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
By Wikipedia's own admission, the transvestite freaks used Compton's Cafeteria more as a "place to socialize than as a restaurant," so it is very, VERY probable that they were engaging in inappropriate behavior and disrupting the cafeteria's business. Therefore, it was more than likely quite proper for the cops to be called. Compton's cafeteria was the true victim, not the transvestite freaks who were causing the trouble.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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