Photograph of Hyland Hotel building with fire truck outside.

At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor

Susan Stryker

The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco’s Tenderloin was a benchmark event in the history of resistance to police oppression of transgender people. Today the building is owned by one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the world. How might the legacies of the collective uprising be mobilized in the cause of social justice today?

How might the legacies of resistance manifested in the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco be mobilized for social justice struggles today?

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