Susan Stryker claims that the Riot at the Compton’s Cafeteria has been the first known incident of collective militant queer resistance to c in U.S. In 1966, three years before the most famous Stonewall Inn riot in New York, a group of trans people reacted against the police brutality starting a riot at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco. The “Screaming Queens” documentary narrates the quiet unknown story of the first act of collective resistance of trans people. The Riot at the Compton’s Cafeteria“, was in Bologna for a two days event organized by the “ Società delle Storiche”, the History Cultures Civility Department “Alma Mater Studiorum” of Bologna University and MIT (Movement of Transsexual Identity) in collaboration with Cassero LGBT Center.
Susan Stryker Bologna, Italy – On 20th and 21st June 2016, Susan Stryker, author and director of the documentary movie “ Screaming Queens.
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