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Mural of a woman with a megaphone depicted as a saint, text about the Compton Cafeteria riots, and beasts representing four forms of hate.
Mural memorializing the Compton Cafeteria uprising in San Francisco. (Photo: Daniela Kantorova)

Uprising at Compton's Cafeteria.

Date: 1966

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Mural memorializing the Compton Cafeteria uprising in San Francisco. (Photo: Daniela Kantorova)

Trans women in San Francisco stand up to police inside Gene Compton’s Cafeteria, an all-night restaurant in the Tenderloin neighborhood and popular queer gathering spot. The uprising is a response to the violence of ongoing police harassment.